Petr Černý FRSC (8 January 1934 – 7 April 2018) was a mineralogy professor at the

University of Manitoba The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a public research university in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Founded in 1877, it is the first university of Western Canada. Both by total student enrolment and campus area, the University of ...

. Černý's studies focus on

pegmatite A pegmatite is an igneous rock showing a very coarse texture, with large interlocking crystals usually greater in size than and sometimes greater than . Most pegmatites are composed of quartz, feldspar, and mica, having a similar silicic c ...

. He is best known for his geological mapping of

Bernic Lake Bernic Lake is a lake in the eastern part of the province of Manitoba, Canada. It is located just southwest of Nopiming Provincial Park, and just north of Whiteshell Provincial Park. The Tanco mine is located on the northwestern shore of the ri ...

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in the 1970s. The site has since hosted several

tantalum Tantalum is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Ta and atomic number 73. It is named after Tantalus, a figure in Greek mythology. Tantalum is a very hard, ductility, ductile, lustre (mineralogy), lustrous, blue-gray transition ...

lithium Lithium (from , , ) is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol, symbol Li and atomic number 3. It is a soft, silvery-white alkali metal. Under standard temperature and pressure, standard conditions, it is the least dense metal and the ...

caesium Caesium (IUPAC spelling; also spelled cesium in American English) is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Cs and atomic number 55. It is a soft, silvery-golden alkali metal with a melting point of , which makes it one of only f ...

mines, for example the

Tanco Mine The Tanco Mine or Bernic Lake mine is an underground caesium and tantalum mine, owned and since 2019 owned and operated by Sinomine Resource Group on the north west shore of Bernic Lake, Manitoba, Canada. The mine has the largest known deposit ...

Honours

*1991, made a fellow of the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; , SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bilingual council of distinguishe ...

*1991, bestowed an honorary doctorate by the University of Manitoba *1993, awarded the Logan Medal by the Geological Association of Canada *the mineral cernyite was named in his honour *elected an honorary member of the Learned Society of Czech Republic *received a medal from the Asociacion Geologica Argentina

References

University of Manitoba Alumni Newsletter- December 2002University of Manitoba- 2002 Annual Report
*Miguel Á. Galliski, David London, Milan Novák, and Robert F. Martin (2012). Granitic Pegmatites and their Minerals: a Tribute to Petr Černý. Can Mineral 50: 777-780. *Miguel Á. Galliski, David London, Milan Novák, and Robert F. Martin (2012). Granitic Pegmatites and their Minerals: a Second Tribute to Petr Černý. Can Mineral 50: 1441–1444.

External links

Masaryk University

1934 births 2018 deaths Canadian geologists Canadian mineralogists Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Academic staff of the University of Manitoba Canadian people of Czech descent Logan Medal recipients Scientists from Brno {{CzechRepublic-scientist-stub