Anton Linder Hales died in Canberra on 11 December 2006. He was a distinguished geophysicist of international renown who made major contributions to understanding the structure and evolution of the deep Earth through the combination of theoretical developments, field experimentation and laboratory measurements, including in whole-mantle convection, palaeomagnetism, geochronology and seismology. He was also a creative and highly successful builder of research institutions on three continents, in South Africa, the USA and Australia. The last of these was as Foundation Director of the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University, leaving behind one of the leading geoscience research institutions in the world. His career spanned a period in which earth science was undergoing rapid evolution—from a ‘fixist’ view of the planet to the ‘highly dynamic’ view that we have today, an evolution to which he made important contributions both through his own research and his scientific leadership at institutional and international level.

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安东·林德·黑尔斯 1911–2006

安东·林德·黑尔斯 (Anton Linder Hales) 于 2006 年 12 月 11 日在堪培拉去世。他是国际知名的杰出地球物理学家，通过理论发展、野外实验和实验室测量的结合，为理解地球深部的结构和演化做出了重大贡献，包括整体-地幔对流、古地磁、地质年代学和地震学。他还是三大洲（南非、美国和澳大利亚）研究机构的创造性和非常成功的建设者。最后一位是作为澳大利亚国立大学地球科学研究学院的基金会主任，留下了世界领先的地球科学研究机构之一。