Chris Ballentine

Chris Ballentine
Chris Ballentine
Citizenship	British
Alma mater	UMIST (BSc), University of Cambridge (PhD)
Awards	Bigsby Medal (2008); ENI award (2016); AGU Fellow (2013);
	Scientific career
Fields	Geochemistry
Institutions	Paul Scherrer Institute; University of Michigan; ETH Zurich; University of Manchester; University of Oxford;
Thesis	(1992)

Chris Ballentine is a British geochemist. He is the chair of geochemistry and head of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. He uses properties of the noble gases to understand the origin and evolution of Earth's atmosphere and mantle.