Neil M RibeNeil M. Ribe is a Senior Researcher with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, working at the FAST laboratory in Orsay. He has held visiting positions at the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris, the Earthquake Research Intitute of the University of Tokyo, and the University of Cambridge. His research interests include fluid mechanics, geodynamics, and the history of science, and he has contributed chapters in the Treatise on Geophysics (2015) and Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. Read More Read Less