Abstract
The life of Keith Runcorn came to an end when he was murdered by an unknown assailant on December 5, 1995, in his hotel room in San Diego. His many friends sorely missed his presence at the AGU Fall meeting, and his death is difficult to accept.Over the last 45 years Keith Runcorn was an important and influential member of the geophysical community who made important contributions to debates related to geomagnetism, paleomagnetism, continental drift, the evolution of planetary interiors, lunar magnetism, the changing length of the day, Earth currents, and the excitation of the Chandler wobble. Runcorn actively pursued research in all of these fields, and some of his ideas were often controversial. It would be fair to say that he never avoided controversy; in fact, he enjoyed it.
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