Arthur Elijah Trueman

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Sir Arthur Elijah Trueman , KBE , FRS (born April 26, 1894 in Nottingham , † January 5, 1956 ) was a British geologist .

Life

Trueman was born in Nottingham to Elijah and Thirza Trueman. He received his education at the High Pavement School in Nottingham, which he left in 1911 to teach as a student teacher at Huntington Street School in Nottingham. In 1912 he enrolled on a scholarship at the University of Nottingham College and studied geology with HH Swinnerton . In 1914 he graduated as a B.Sc. with distinction. In 1916 he passed the examination for M.Sc, and received his doctorate in 1918. In 1920 he married Florence Kate Offler.

Act

His first position was as a visiting professor at Cardiff University College , where he taught from 1917 to 1920. From 1920 he was lecturer and head of the geological department at the newly established college of Swansea University . In 1930 he was appointed professor of geology and head of the geography department. In 1933 he received the Chaning Wills Professorship in Geology at the University of Bristol , where he also held the position of Dean of the Faculty of Science for three years. Among his students was the later professor Leslie Rowsell Moore , who taught as a recognized paleontologist and paleobotanist at the University of Sheffield . In 1937 he was appointed to the geology chair at the University of Glasgow , to which he was succeeded in 1946 by his former student Thomas Neville George .

From 1946 to 1953 he worked on the University Grants Committee , which was responsible for educational grants in the United Kingdom. Between 1945 and 1947 he was chairman of the Geological Society of London . Trueman also served as chairman of the British Association's Committee for Geology Education in Schools, chaired the geological department of the Bristol Naturalists Society, and chaired the Glasgow Geological Society. He was raised to the nobility in 1951 as Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire .

Honors and prizes

It was developed by the universities of Glasgow, Rhodes , Wales and Leeds for honorary doctorate appointed.

Works

  • An Introduction to Geology. London . Thos. Murby & Co, 1938.
  • The Scenery of England and Wales . Gollancz, London 1938.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William John Pugh: Arthur Elijah Trueman. 1894-1956 . Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 4, 1958, pp. 291-426. doi : 10.1098 / rsbm.1958.0023
  2. ↑ later revised by JB Whittow and JR Hardy and republished under the title of Geology and Scenery in England and Wales . Penguin books, Harmondsworth 1971, ISBN 0-14-020185-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Trueman, Arthur Elijah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Nottingham
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1956