Frank D. Stacey

At the University of London, Stacey graduated with a B.Sc. in 1950 and a Ph.D. in 1953. As a postdoc, he was from 1953 to 1956 a research fellow at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. From 1961 to 1964 he was a Royal Society Gassiot Fellow in Geomagnetism at the Meteorological Office Research Unit of the University of Cambridge. Near the beginning of his career he published several papers in The Philosophical Magazine.{{cite journal|url=|doi=10.1080/14786435908238255 |title=A domain theory of magnetic grains in rocks |date=1959 |last1=Stacey |first1=F. D. |journal=Philosophical Magazine |volume=4 |issue=41 |pages=594–605 |bibcode=1959PMag....4..594S }}{{cite journal|url=|doi=10.1080/14786436108243374 |title=Theory of the magnetic properties of igneous rocks in alternating fields |date=1961 |last1=Stacey |first1=F. D. |journal=Philosophical Magazine |volume=6 |issue=70 |pages=1241–1260 |bibcode=1961PMag....6.1241S }}{{cite journal|url=|doi=10.1080/14786436208213853 |title=A generalized theory of thermoremanence, covering the transition from single domain to multi-domain magnetic grains |date=1962 |last1=Stacey |first1=F. D. |journal=Philosophical Magazine |volume=7 |issue=83 |pages=1887–1900 |bibcode=1962PMag....7.1887S }}{{cite journal|url=|doi=10.1080/14786436208212623 |title=Theory of the magnetic susceptibility of stressed rock |date=1962 |last1=Stacey |first1=F. D. |journal=Philosophical Magazine |volume=7 |issue=76 |pages=551–556 |bibcode=1962PMag....7..551S }} He was a Reader in Physics at the University of Queensland from 1964 to 1971 — during those years he wrote the first three editions of Physics of the Earth. (In 1988 a fourth edition was published with Paul McEwan Davis as co-author.) In 1968 Stacey received his D.Sc. from the University of London. From 1971 to 1990 he was a professor of Applied Physics at the University of Queensland.{{cite web|author=Walker, Rosanne|title=Stacey, Frank Donald (1929 - )|website=Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation|url=https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002610b.htm}} He was appointed to visiting lectureships in several different countries. In 1997 he joined the Australian Government agency CSIRO Exploration and Mining.{{cite web|title=Frontmatter, isbn 978-0-521-87362-8 - Physics of the Earth: Fourth Edition; Frank D Stacey and Paul M Davis |website=Cambridge University Press (assets.cambridge.org) |url=https://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/73628/frontmatter/9780521873628_frontmatter.pdf}}

Louis Néel’s 1955 paper Some theoretical aspects of rock-magnetism{{cite journal|author=Néel, Louis|title=Some theoretical aspects of rock-magnetism|journal=Advances in Physics|volume=4|issue=14|year=1955|pages=191–243|doi=10.1080/00018735500101204 |bibcode=1955AdPhy...4..191N |url=https://hal.science/hal-02888358/file/N%C3%A9el%20-%201955%20-%20Some%20theoretical%20aspects%20of%20rock-magnetism.pdf}} inspired Stacey to generalize Néel's single-domain theory for magnetic grains to multi-domained grains. In the theory of remanence for igneous rocks, Stacey introduced the concept of pseudo-single domain for magnetic grains which are small and multi-domained.{{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF00875588 |title=On the role of Brownian motion in the control of detrital remanent magnetization of sediments |date=1972 |last1=Stacey |first1=Frank D. |journal=Pure and Applied Geophysics Pageoph |volume=98 |issue=1 |pages=139–145 |bibcode=1972PApGe..98..139S |s2cid=128617425 }} He did research on scientifically describing rock fabric using magnetic anisotropywith Subir K. Banerjee The high field torque-meter method of measuring magnetic anisotropy of rocks, in D. W. Collinson, K. M. Creer, S. K. Runcorn (eds.) Methods in Palaeomagnetism, Elsevier 1967, pp. 470–476 and predicting earthquakes and volcanic eruptions using piezomagnetism.{{cite journal|doi=10.1038/240348a0 |title=Geomagnetic Anomalies caused by a Man-made Lake |date=1972 |last1=Davis |first1=P. M. |last2=Stacey |first2=F. D. |journal=Nature |volume=240 |issue=5380 |pages=348–349 |bibcode=1972Natur.240..348D |s2cid=4258142 }}{{cite journal|doi=10.1038/2241289a0 |title=Transient Magnetic Anomalies accompanying Volcanic Eruptions in New Zealand |date=1969 |last1=Johnston |first1=M. J. S. |last2=Stacey |first2=F. D. |journal=Nature |volume=224 |issue=5226 |pages=1289–1290 |bibcode=1969Natur.224.1289J |s2cid=4289952 }} With several colleagues, Stacey investigated possible failures of Newton's law of gravity.{{cite journal|doi=10.1038/292230a0 |title=Geophysical evidence for non-newtonian gravity |date=1981 |last1=Stacey |first1=F. D. |last2=Tuck |first2=G. J. |journal=Nature |volume=292 |issue=5820 |pages=230–232 |bibcode=1981Natur.292..230S |s2cid=4355620 }}{{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.23.1683 |title=Constraint on the planetary scale value of the Newtonian gravitational constant from the gravity profile within a mine |date=1981 |last1=Stacey |first1=F. D. |last2=Tuck |first2=G. J. |last3=Holding |first3=S. C. |last4=Maher |first4=A. R. |last5=Morris |first5=D. |journal=Physical Review D |volume=23 |issue=8 |pages=1683–1692 |bibcode=1981PhRvD..23.1683S }}{{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.33.3487 |title=Gravity in mines mdash an investigation of Newton's law |date=1986 |last1=Holding |first1=Steven C. |last2=Stacey |first2=Frank D. |last3=Tuck |first3=Gary J. |journal=Physical Review D |volume=33 |issue=12 |pages=3487–3494 |pmid=9956574 |bibcode=1986PhRvD..33.3487H }}{{cite journal|doi=10.1103/RevModPhys.59.157 |title=Geophysics and the law of gravity |date=1987 |last1=Stacey |first1=F. D. |last2=Tuck |first2=G. J. |last3=Moore |first3=G. I. |last4=Holding |first4=S. C. |last5=Goodwin |first5=B. D. |last6=Zhou |first6=R. |journal=Reviews of Modern Physics |volume=59 |issue=1 |pages=157–174 |bibcode=1987RvMP...59..157S }}{{cite journal|doi=10.1063/1.2815165 |title=Reanalysis of Old Eötvös Data Suggests 5th Force…To Some |date=1986 |last1=Schwarzschild |first1=Bertram |journal=Physics Today |volume=39 |issue=10 |pages=17–20 }}{{cite journal|doi=10.1063/1.2811493 |title=From Mine Shafts to Cliffs—The 'Fifth Force' Remains Elusive |date=1988 |last1=Schwarzschild |first1=Bertram |journal=Physics Today |volume=41 |issue=7 |pages=21–24 |bibcode=1988PhT....41g..21S }}

Using a lattice dynamical formulation for the Grüneisen parameter, he developed a new equation of state for high pressures with applications to materials in the Earth's core and lower mantle.{{cite journal|doi=10.1046/j.1365-246X.2000.00253.x|title=The K -primed approach to high-pressure equations of state |date=2000 |last1=Stacey |first1=Frank D. |journal=Geophysical Journal International |volume=143 |issue=3 |pages=621–628 |bibcode=2000GeoJI.143..621S |doi-access=free }} His book Physics of the Earth became a widely used, standard textbook and was the first geophysics textbook to comprehensively deal with solid Earth geophysics.

Stacey chaired from 1966 to 1967 the Australian Institute of Physics, Queensland branch. He was elected in 1979 a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and in 1986 a Fellow der American Geophysical Union.{{cite web|title=Fellows Search|website=American Geophysical Union|url=https://www.agu.org/Honor-and-Recognize/Honors/Union-Fellows}} (Search on name="Stacey".) In 1994 he was awarded the Louis Néel Medal.

• {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF01992481 |title=Magnetic anisotropy and fabric of some foliated rocks from S.E. Australia |date=1960 |last1=Stacey |first1=F. D. |last2=Joplin |first2=Germaine |last3=Lindsay |first3=J. |journal=Geofisica Pura e Applicata |volume=47 |issue=1 |pages=30–40 |bibcode=1960GeoPA..47...30S |s2cid=129917300 }}
• {{cite journal|url=|doi=10.1080/00018736300101263 |title=The physical theory of rock magnetism |date=1963 |last1=Stacey |first1=F.D. |journal=Advances in Physics |volume=12 |issue=45 |pages=45–133 |bibcode=1963AdPhy..12...45S }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF00879136 |title=The seismomagnetic effect |date=1964 |last1=Stacey |first1=Frank D. |journal=Pure and Applied Geophysics Pageoph |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=5–22 |bibcode=1964PApGe..58....5S |s2cid=140161347 }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF00875958 |title=Theory of the piezomagnetic effect in titanomagnetite-bearing rocks |date=1972 |last1=Stacey |first1=Frank D. |last2=Johnston |first2=Malcolm J. S. |journal=Pure and Applied Geophysics Pageoph |volume=97 |issue=1 |pages=146–155 |bibcode=1972PApGe..97..146S |hdl=2027.42/43261 |s2cid=140715647 |hdl-access=free }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/0031-9201(74)90041-7 |title=Anelastic degradation of acoustic pulses in rock |date=1974 |last1=Gladwin |first1=M.T. |last2=Stacey |first2=F.D. |journal=Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=332–336 |bibcode=1974PEPI....8..332G }}
• {{cite journal|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0040195174900912 |doi=10.1016/0040-1951(74)90091-2 |title=Stresses within an active volcano — with particular reference to kilauea |date=1974 |last1=Davis |first1=P.M. |last2=Hastie |first2=L.M. |last3=Stacey |first3=F.D. |journal=Tectonophysics |volume=22 |issue=3–4 |pages=355–362 |bibcode=1974Tectp..22..355D }}
• {{cite journal|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0031920177900966 |doi=10.1016/0031-9201(77)90096-6 |title=A thermal model of the earth |date=1977 |last1=Stacey |first1=Frank D. |journal=Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=341–348 |bibcode=1977PEPI...15..341S }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF01449185 |title=Finite strain theories and comparisons with seismological data |date=1981 |last1=Stacey |first1=F. D. |last2=Brennan |first2=B. J. |last3=Irvine |first3=R. D. |journal=Geophysical Surveys |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=189–232 |bibcode=1981GeoSu...4..189S |s2cid=129899060 }}
• {{cite journal|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0031920183900067 |doi=10.1016/0031-9201(83)90006-7 |title=The thermal boundary-layer interpretation of D" and its role as a plume source |date=1983 |last1=Stacey |first1=Frank D. |last2=Loper |first2=David E. |author-link2=David Loper |journal=Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=45–55 |bibcode=1983PEPI...33...45S }}
• {{cite journal|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/003192018390047X |doi=10.1016/0031-9201(83)90047-X |title=The dynamical and thermal structure of deep mantle plumes |date=1983 |last1=Loper |first1=David E. |last2=Stacey |first2=Frank D. |journal=Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors |volume=33 |issue=4 |pages=304–317 |bibcode=1983PEPI...33..304L }}
• {{cite journal|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0031920194030054 |doi=10.1016/0031-9201(94)03005-4 |title=Theory of thermal and elastic properties of the lower mantle and core |date=1995 |last1=Stacey |first1=Frank D. |journal=Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors |volume=89 |issue=3–4 |pages=219–245 |bibcode=1995PEPI...89..219S }}
• {{cite journal|url= |doi=10.1016/S0031-9201(98)00084-3 |title=Thermoelasticity of a mineral composite and a reconsideration of lower mantle properties |date=1998 |last1=Stacey |first1=Frank D. |journal=Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors |volume=106 |issue=3–4 |pages=219–236 |bibcode=1998PEPI..106..219S }}
• {{cite journal|url= |doi=10.1016/S0031-9201(01)00186-8 |title=Electrical and thermal conductivities of Fe–Ni–Si alloy under core conditions |date=2001 |last1=Stacey |first1=Frank D. |last2=Anderson |first2=Orson L. |journal=Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors |volume=124 |issue=3–4 |pages=153–162 |bibcode=2001PEPI..124..153S }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/j.pepi.2004.02.003 |title=High pressure equations of state with applications to the lower mantle and core |date=2004 |last1=Stacey |first1=F.D. |last2=Davis |first2=P.M. |journal=Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors |volume=142 |issue=3–4 |pages=137–184 |bibcode=2004PEPI..142..137S }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1088/0034-4885/68/2/R03 |title=High pressure equations of state and planetary interiors |date=2005 |last1=Stacey |first1=Frank D. |journal=Reports on Progress in Physics |volume=68 |issue=2 |pages=341–383 |bibcode=2005RPPh...68..341S |s2cid=119938814 }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/j.pepi.2006.12.001 |title=A revised estimate of the conductivity of iron alloy at high pressure and implications for the core energy balance |date=2007 |last1=Stacey |first1=F.D. |last2=Loper |first2=D.E. |journal=Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors |volume=161 |issue=1–2 |pages=13–18 |bibcode=2007PEPI..161...13S }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/j.pepi.2018.10.006 |title=Thermodynamics with the Grüneisen parameter: Fundamentals and applications to high pressure physics and geophysics |date=2019 |last1=Stacey |first1=Frank D. |last2=Hodgkinson |first2=Jane H. |journal=Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors |volume=286 |pages=42–68 |bibcode=2019PEPI..286...42S |s2cid=125922484 }}

• Physics of the Earth, Wiley 1969{{cite journal|title=Review of Physics of he Earth by Frank D. Stacey|author=Elsasser, Walter M.|author-link=Walter M. Elsasser|journal=Physics Today|volume=23|issue=10|pages=55–56|date=October 1970|url=https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article-abstract/23/10/55/427002/Physics-of-the-Earth}} {{LCCN|70081330}}
• with Paul McEwan Davis: [https://books.google.com/books?id=I0Z0AgAAQBAJ Physics of the Earth], Cambridge University Press, 4th edition 2008 (1st edition, Wiley, New York 1969) {{LCCN|2008279148}} {{isbn|9780521873628}}
• with Subir K. Banerjee [https://books.google.com/books?id=H7cLfKQgMbgC The physical principles of rock magnetism], Elsevier 1974 {{isbn|0-444-41084-8}} [https://shop.elsevier.com/books/the-physical-principles-of-rock-magnetism/stacey/978-0-444-41084-9 book description from Elsevier]
• as editor with M. S. Paterson and A. Nicolas [https://books.google.com/books?id=LF0SAQAAIAAJ Anelasticity in the Earth], Geodynamics Series, Vol. 4, American Geophysical Union/Geological Society of America 1981
• with Jane H. Hodgkinson [https://books.google.com/books?id=sp26CgAAQBAJ The Earth as a cradle of life], World Scientific 2013{{cite journal|doi=10.1007/s12665-015-4227-8 |title=Stacey FD, Hodgkinson JH: The Earth as a cradle for life—the origin, evolution and future of the environment |date=2015 |last1=de Grosbois |first1=Anne Marie |journal=Environmental Earth Sciences |volume=73 |issue=10 |page=6719 |bibcode=2015EES....73.6719D |s2cid=199447171 |doi-access=free }}{{cite web|author=Knevitt, Oliver|title=Review of The Earth as a cradle for life|website=European Geosciences Union (egu.eu)|url=https://www.egu.eu/newsletter/geoq/08/books2.pdf}} {{isbn|9789814508322}}
• with Jane H. Hodgkinson [https://books.google.com/books?id=ePA0DwAAQBAJ Practical handbook of Earth science], CRC Press 2017 {{LCCN|2017008776}} {{isbn|9781351374705}}{{cite web|author=Larwood, Jonathan|website=The Institution of Environmental Science|date=September 2018|title=Book review: ''Practical Handbook of Earth Science|url=https://www.the-ies.org/analysis/book-review-practical-handbook}}

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