Charles Findlay Davidson

Charles Findlay Davidson ( July 16, 1911 - November 1, 1967 ) was a British geologist.

Davidson studied geology and mineralogy at St. Andrews University, graduating in 1933. He was then assistant curator at the Museum of Practical Geology in London. During World War II he advised the British secret services as a military geologist and in 1944 became chief geologist of a special unit of the Geological Survey of Great Britain (later assigned to the Atomic Energy Division), which was supposed to search for uranium for the Allied nuclear weapons and nuclear energy program. In the early 1950s he was involved in the discovery of large uranium deposits in Canada (by the geologist Franc Joubon ). In 1955 he became professor of geology and mineralogy at the University of St. Andrews, which he remained until his death.

Since 1935 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In 1965 he received the Lyell Medal .

literature

KC Dunham, obituary in Proc. Geolog. Soc. London 1969

Web links

Biography at the British Geological Survey

Individual evidence

^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 20, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Davidson, Charles Findlay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British geologist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 16, 1911
DATE OF DEATH	November 1, 1967

[1] Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 20, 2019 .