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Sleep (Norman) papers
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Norman H. Sleep, born 14 February 1945, is an American geophysicist and professor of geophysics at Stanford University. He has done internationally recognized research on plate tectonics and many other areas of geology and planetology. In 1967, Sleep graduated with a B.S. in mathematics from Michigan State University. He then studied geophysics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he earned his master's degree in 1969 and a doctorate in geophysics in 1973. After a brief period as a postdoctoral research associate at MIT, he joined Northwestern University in 1973 where he was an assistant professor of geophysics until 1979. From 1979 to 1984 he was an associate professor and from 1984 to 1993 a full professor of geophysics and geology at Stanford University. Sleep is currently emeritus faculty in the Stanford University Doerr School of Sustainability.
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