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Barbara Sherwood Lollar, CC FRSC (born February 19, 1963[1]) is a Canadian geologist and academic known for her research into billion-year-old water.[2]

Born in the United States, the daughter of John and Joan Sherwood,[1] she joined the University of Toronto in 1992 after receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geological Sciences from Harvard University, a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from University of Waterloo, and a postdoctoral fellow at University of Cambridge. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Toronto.[3] In 2007, she was made a Canada Research Chair in Isotope Geochemistry of the Earth and the Environment. It was renewed in 2014.[4]

Honours

In 2004, she was made a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada. In 2010, she was made a Senior Fellow of Massey College. In 2012, she was awarded the ENI award. In 2015, she was made a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. In 2016, she was awarded the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council's John C. Polanyi Award.[5] In 2016, she was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada "for her revolutionary contributions to geochemistry, notably in the development of innovative mechanisms for groundwater remediation, and for her discovery of ancient fluids that hold implications for life on other planets".[6] Also in 2016, she was awarded the Bancroft Award by the Royal Society of Canada.[7] She received the Logan Medal in 2018.

On 6 May 2019, Lollar received the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.[8][9]

References

  1. ^ a b Canadian Who's Who 2006. p. 1201.
  2. ^ "Polanyi Prize awarded to Barbara Sherwood Lollar". University of Toronto.
  3. ^ "BARBARA SHERWOOD LOLLAR – SHORT BIOGRAPHY".
  4. ^ "Canada Research Chairs - Barbara Sherwood Lollar".
  5. ^ "Sherwood Lollar CV April 2016" (PDF).
  6. ^ "Governor General Announces 113 New Appointments to the Order of Canada".
  7. ^ "Past Awards Winners". The Royal Society of Canada. Archived from the original on 2016-10-14. Retrieved 30 August 2017. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ "Barbara Sherwood Lollar, diviner of ancient water, wins top Canadian science prize". Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  9. ^ ""Geologist who discovered oldest water on Earth wins top science award"". CBC. 6 May 2019.


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