Keith Bullen (mathematician)
Keith Edward Bullen FAA FRS (29 June 1906 – 23 September 1976) was a New Zealand-born mathematician and geophysicist.He is noted for his seismological interpretation of the deep structure of the Earth's mantle and core.[1][2][3] Bullen went to St John's College, Cambridge in 1931, and became a research student, with Harold Jeffreys as his supervisor.Bullen was awarded many medals and honours by societies in Australia and abroad, being elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1949,[2] a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1961, and Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in 1968.Bullen married Florence Mary Pressley (known as Mary) in Auckland in 1935 and they had two children, a son named John born in Auckland in 1936, and a daughter named Anne born in Melbourne in 1943.