Grenville Turner

Grenville Turner FRS
Born(1936-11-01)1 November 1936
Todmorden, England
Died22 August 2024(2024-08-22) (aged 87)
Sheffield, England
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
University of Cambridge
Known forArgon–argon dating
AwardsRumford Medal (1996)
Urey Medal (2002)
Fellow of the Royal Society
Gold Medal of the RAS
Scientific career
FieldsCosmochemistry
Isotope geochemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester
University of Sheffield
California Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley
Thesis (1962)

Grenville Turner FRS (1 November 1936 – 22 August 2024) was a British geochemist who was a research professor at the University of Manchester. He was one of the pioneers of cosmochemistry.


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