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Police on Wednesday were investigating the murder of a prominent geophysicist who was found strangled in his hotel room.
British-born professor Stanley Keith Runcorn, 73, a pioneer in the theory of continental movement, or plate tectonics, was on a lecture tour and staying in a downtown hotel, where his body was found Tuesday by a maid. Police said he had been dead for several hours and that the apparent motive was robbery.
Runcorn, of the University of Alaska, was known worldwide for his work in nuclear physics and Earth magnetism. He was also part of the committee of scientists overseeing Biosphere II,
