Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society[2] Robert L. Parker is an American geophysicist and mathematician, currently holding a Professor Emeritus of Geophysics position at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California.
in 1964, and Ph.D. in 1966[6] in Geophysics at Downing College, Cambridge in England,[7] Parker moved to the U.S. to work at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP).
He has subsequently built on work by Freeman Gilbert and George Backus regarding inverse theory and is a world-renowned expert on the general subject of inverse theory, having written one of the authoritative books [1] on the subject: Geophysical Inverse Theory .
Parker is an avid bicyclist and keeps track of all of his miles.
[9] He has also written about the energy behind bicycle physics.