Alexander Heron
Alexander Macmillan Heron (born July 31, 1884 in Edinburgh , † 1971 in the Nilgiri Hills , South India) was a British geologist. He was the director of the Geological Survey of India (GSI).
Heron graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an engineering degree in 1906 and in the same year joined the GSI, of which he became director in 1936, succeeding Lewis Leigh Fermor . In 1939 he resigned, but continued to work for the survey, particularly in the geological mapping of Rajasthan .
In 1925 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . From 1934 to 1937 he was president of the Calcutta Geographical Society, later the Geographical Society of India.
He took part in the British expedition to Mount Everest in 1921 under the direction of Charles Howard-Bury and at that time explored the mountain region around Mount Everest geologically. Henry Morsehead and Oliver Wheeler were surveyors for the expedition and George Mallory , Harold Raeburn and Alexander Mitchell Kellas were among the climbers. Since, according to the Tibetan authorities, he had been looking for precious stones in sacred mountains and had aroused the displeasure of the demons, a diplomatic protest took place, which prevented him from participating in the following expedition in 1922.
Fonts
- Geological Results of the Mount Everest Expedition, 1921, Geographical Journal, Volume 59, 1922, pp. 418-431
- Appendix III. A note on the geological results of the expedition, in: CK Howard-Bury: Mount Everest the Reconnaissance 1921, New York: Longman & Green, 1922, pp. 338-340
- The Geology of Central Rajasthan 1953
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| SURNAME | Heron, Alexander |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heron, Alexander Macmillan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edinburgh |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1971 |
| Place of death | Nilgiri Hills |