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Thorne Lay (born 1956) is an American seismologist.[1] He was born in Casper, Wyoming in 1956, and raised in El Paso, Texas. He is a professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[2]

Education

Lay received a B.S. from the University of Rochester in 1978, a M.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1980, and a Ph.D. also from California Institute of Technology, in 1983. [3]

Awards and academic honors

References

  1. ^ "Thorne Lay | Seismological Society of America". www.seismosoc.org. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
  2. ^ "Thorne Lay". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
  3. ^ a b "People - UC Santa Cruz Seismology Laboratory". websites.pmc.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-23.