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Murchison Fund
The Murchison Fund is an award given by the Geological Society of London to researchers under the age of 40 who have contributed substantially to the study of hard rock and tectonic geology. It is named in honour of Prof. Roderick Impey Murchison. Recipients SourceMurchison Fund, The Geological Society See also * List of geology awards * Murchison Medal * Prizes named after people A prize is an award to be given to a person or a group of people (such as sporting teams and organizations) to recognize and reward their actions and achievements. References 2006 awards at Durham University at Geotimes [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geological Society Of London
The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom. It is the oldest national geological society in the world and the largest in Europe with more than 12,000 Fellows. Fellows are entitled to the postnominal FGS (Fellow of the Geological Society), over 2,000 of whom are Chartered Geologists (CGeol). The Society is a Registered Charity, No. 210161. It is also a member of the Science Council, and is licensed to award Chartered Scientist to qualifying members. The mission of the society is: "Making geologists acquainted with each other, stimulating their zeal, inducing them to adopt one nomenclature, facilitating the communication of new facts and ascertaining what is known in their science and what remains to be discovered". History The Society was founded on 13 November 1807 at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, in the Covent Garden district of London. It was partly the outcome of a previous cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Casey (geologist)
Raymond Casey, FRS, FGS (10 October 1917 – 26 April 2016) was a British geologist. Life He was born in Folkestone, Kent and educated at St. Mary’s Higher Grade Boys School, Folkestone. After war service as aircrew in the RAF he worked with the Geological Survey, where he researched Palaeozoic stratigraphy. In the mid-1950s he did a PhD course at Reading University involving a study of the Lower Greensand deposits.http://www.mfms.org.uk/pages/pdf/CASEY%20STORY.pdf In 1970 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, his election citation describing him as An authority in a wide field of Mesozoic stratigraphy and palaeontology. His field observations and palaeontological discoveries have clarified depositional history and structural relationships of the English Lower Cretaceous, notably the Lower Greensand. His work on the ammonites has revised correlation in many parts of the globe, notably southeast U.S.A., and has fundamentally modified ideas on stratigraphy and palae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Reginald Cox
Leslie Reginald Cox FRS (22 November 1897, Islington – 5 August 1965) was an English palaeontologist and malacologist. Education Cox was born to parents who worked as government servants, in the Post Office telephone engineers' department. When he was still young, the family moved to Harringay, where he at age six started attendance at the South Harringay County School. In 1909, he entered Owen's School in Islington, one of the old London grammar schools. Awards and honours Cox was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1950. His nomination reads: He was elected president of the Geologists' Association The Geologists' Association, founded in 1858, is a British organisation with charitable status for those concerned with the study of geology. It publishes the ''Proceedings of the Geologists' Association'' and jointly with the Geological Society ... for 1954–56. Career In August 1916, Cox began his war service. Publications Cox's most important publications include: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril James Stubblefield
Sir (Cyril) James Stubblefield FRS (1901–1999) was a British geologist. Stubblefield was the president of the Geological Society of London from 1958 to 1960 and was the director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain from 1960 until 1966. Early life Stubblefield was born in Cambridge, the only son of a gardener and his wife. He gained a scholarship to The Perse School, Cambridge. Education After work as a junior factory chemist, Stubblefield moved to London to continue his education at evening classes at the South-Western Polytechnic (later Chelsea College). He gained a further scholarship to Imperial College, London, where he gained an ARCS and BSc in geology in 1923, with first class honours. Sir Cyril James Stubblefield was a member of the Links Club of the City and Guilds College whilst at Imperial College. Career Stubblefield was appointed demonstrator in geology at Imperial and began research into the early Palaeozoic rocks of Shropshire, gaining his PhD in 1925 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talbot Whitehead
Talbot Haes Whitehead FRSE FGS (1890–1966) was a 20th-century British geologist. Life He was born in London on 24 May 1890. He studied Sciences at University College, London, graduating BSc in 1912. In 1913, aged only 23, he was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society. He was appointed as a Geologist to the British Geological Survey in 1914, but this was disrupted by the war. In the First World War he served with the Royal Fusiliers and Suffolk Regiment, and saw action at Gallipoli and on the Somme. He reached the rank of Captain and was severely wounded in action and spent the final year working with the Intelligence section of the War Office. Returning to the BGS he was promoted to District Geologist in 1935 and was responsible in particular for ensuring British coal and iron ore supplies during the Second World War. He was promoted to Assistant Director in 1945 in succession to Murray Macgregor. He was awarded the Murchison Fund by the Geological Society in 1933. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Vernon Harrison
John Vernon Harrison FRSE FGS (1892-1972) was a British structural geologist, explorer and cartographer. Life He was born to British parents in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State on 16 March 1892. His father was John Frederick Harrison, a civil engineer. His family returned to Scotland in his early childhood, living at a flat at 37 Warrender Park Road in Marchmont in Edinburgh and he here attended George Watson's College. Moving to Glasgow around 1905 the family lived first at 32 Hamilton Park Terrace and then 34 Rowallan Gardens in Partick, a pleasant terraced house. In Glasgow he attended Allan Glen's School. In 1910 he began studying Science at Glasgow University. He won many prizes including the Joseph Black Medal and George Roger Muirhead Prize for Chemistry. He was particularly influenced by his Geology teacher, Prof John Walter Gregory. He graduated BSc with distinction in 1914. His first employment after graduation was as an explosives chemist. Despite this apparent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Dix
Emily Dix (21 May 1904 – 31 December 1972) was a palaeobotanist, specialising in the fossil flora of the Coal Measures. Education She was born into a farming family living at Llanrhidian on the Gower Peninsula. At 18 she won a scholarship to University College Swansea where she graduated in 1925 with a first class honours degree in geology. She then went on to study with Arthur Trueman at Swansea, with whom she worked for the next five years on various projects. T. Neville George worked with her on the Coal Measures. She was awarded an M. Sc. in 1926 for work on paleontology in the Coal Measures of the Gwendraeth Valley in South Wales and a DSc.doctorate from the University of Wales in 1933 for a thesis about correlation of coal seams in South Wales. Her research was supported by grants from the government because of its importance to the coal industry. Academic career In 1929 Dix was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society. In 1930 she was appointed lecturer in geology at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Gordon MacGregor
Dr Archibald Gordon MacGregor MC FRSE FGS (1894-19 December 1986) was a 20th century geologist of Scots descent. He was Assistant Director of the British Geological Survey. Friends knew him as Archie MacGregor. Life He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia the son of James Gordon MacGregor, a geologist who spent time in both Scotland and Nova Scotia. The family returned to Edinburgh in 1901, living at 6 Chalmers Crescent in The Grange. Archibald attended Edinburgh Academy 1904 to 1912. He then studied science at the University of Edinburgh specialising in geology. His life, as many others, was disrupted by World War I during which he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers (Signals Division), seeing service in France and Germany and being demobbed in 1919. He won the Military Cross during the Battle of the Lys in April 1918. He graduated with a BSc in science in 1921. In 1921 he began working as a geologist for HM Geological Survey. He stayed there for his ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Weir (geologist)
John ("Jim") Weir FRSE FGS (1896 – 1978) was a 20th-century Scottish geologist and palaeontologist. Life Weir was born in Glasgow in 1896 and was educated at Woodside Secondary School. He served in the 51st Highland Division in the First World War. He was wounded in action three times and invalided out of the army in 1918. His main actions and wounds were received at High Wood, Arras and the main German counter-attack of 1918. His lungs were damaged by a gas attack in the latter. He studied Science at University of Glasgow specialising in geology and mining, graduating MA in 1920 and gaining his first doctorate (PhD) in 1925. He began as a Demonstrator in the university in 1921 and became a Lecturer in Palaeontology in 1923. In 1934 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Edward Battersby Bailey, George Tyrrell, Sir John Graham Kerr, John Walton and John Pringle. In 1941 he succeeded Arthur Trueman as President of the Glasgow Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingsley Charles Dunham
Sir Kingsley Charles Dunham (2 January 1910 – 5 April 2001) was one of the leading British geologists and mineralogists of the 20th century. He was a Professor of Geology at the University of Durham from 1950–71. He was later Professor Emeritus from 1967–2001. He was director of the British Geological Survey from 1967–75. Early life Dunham was born in Sturminster Newton, Dorset and moved at an early age with his family to Durham. He attended the Durham Johnston School (then a Grammar School) and then won a Foundation Scholarship to Hatfield College, Durham, graduating with a first-class degree in Geology in 1930 at a time when Arthur Holmes was professor. A gifted musician, Dunham was Organ Scholar during his undergraduate days. Following graduation, he pursued research into the Pennine Orefield of the North of England, under the supervision of Arthur Holmes. He graduated with a PhD in 1932 on the subject of Ore deposits of the north Pennines. Career Dunham studied a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Alexander Deer
William Alexander (Alex) Deer FRS (26 October 1910 – 8 February 2009) was a distinguished British geologist, petrologist and mineralogist. Biography Alex Deer was born in Rusholme, Manchester, the son of William Deer. He attended Manchester Central High School and then Manchester University, and took up a research studentship at St Johns College, Cambridge in 1934, to study for a PhD. Career In 1937, after completing his PhD, Deer was appointed an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester. On the outbreak of war in 1939, Deer joined the Chemical Warfare Section of the Royal Engineers, and later transferred to the Operations Staff. He served in the Middle East, Burma and North Africa, and was appointed to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Deer returned to Cambridge in 1946, where he was appointed University Demonstrator in mineralogy and petrology, and Fellow and Junior Bursar at St Johns College, Cambridge. He was appointed a Tutor in 1949. In 1950, he was elected t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan Leitch (geologist)
Duncan Leitch FRSE FGS (1904 -1956) was a 20th-century Scottish geologist and palaeontologist. He specialised in Carboniferous stratigraphy. Life He was born in Glasgow on 20 March 1904. He was educated at Woodside School in Glasgow. He then studied Science at Glasgow University drifting towards an interest in geology due to Prof John Walter Gregory. He graduated with First Class Honours BSc in Geology in 1926. He then became a Demonstrator in the Geology lectures, assisting Prof Gregory. He was granted a Carnegie Teaching Fellowship and in 1938 he began lecturing in his own right. In 1946 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Trueman, John Weir, Thomas Alty and Sir Maurice Yonge. In 1947 he accepted a professorship at University College, Swansea in Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
