Stephen Moorbath

Stephen Moorbath
Stephen Moorbath in Linacre College Common Room, 1986
Born(1929-05-09)9 May 1929
Magdeburg, Germany
Died16 October 2016(2016-10-16) (aged 87)
Alma materLincoln College, Oxford
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Stephen Erwin Moorbath FRS (9 May 192916 October 2016) was a German-born British geochronologist. He set up (1956–58) and then directed the Geological Age and Isotope Research Group at the University of Oxford, before retiring.