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Dr Christopher John Talbot
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Christopher J. Talbot was born in Lowestoft in 1940. Educated at Westminster City Grammar School, London, he later attended Imperial College, London from where he graduated BSc in 1963. He was an Oppenheimer Scholar at the Research Institute of African Geology, University of Leeds between 1963-1967 from where he obtained his PhD in 1967. After two years as a Research Associate at the School of Mining, Sheffield University he joined the Geology Department at Dundee University as an assistant lecturer. From 1983 he was Professor of Tectonics and Geodynamics at Uppsala University, Sweden concentrating on teaching and research into rock deformation. Talbot has conducted extensive research overseas and has published widely. He was still at Uppsala University in 2003.