Frank Dawson Adams
Frank Dawson Adams (born September 17, 1859 in Montreal , † December 26, 1942 there ) was a Canadian geologist .
Adams went to school in Montreal and studied geology at McGill University with John William Dawson and Bernard Harrington. In 1878 he graduated in applied sciences and continued his studies at Yale University , where he studied French , German and mineralogy , the latter with the petrologist George Wessel Hawes (1848-1882), a student of Karl Heinrich (Harry) Rosenbusch . From 1880 to 1889 he was employed by the Geological Survey of Canada as a chemist and petrologist. He also spent a year studying with Harry Rosenbusch in Heidelberg, where he also received his doctorate in 1892. In 1884 he earned a masters degree from McGill University. From 1989 he was a lecturer and from 1892 he was Logan Professor of Geology at McGill University. From 1905 to 1919 he was Dean of Applied Sciences and in 1922 he retired. But he was still active as a geologist and created the first geological map of Ceylon . In 1913 he was President of the International Geological Congress in Toronto .
He applied the microscopic petrological techniques learned from Harry Rosenbusch in Heidelberg in Canada, where he is considered the founder of modern techniques in the petrology of igneous and metamorphic rocks. He became known for his experimental work on the flow of metamorphic rocks under high pressure. His pioneering work in this area was later continued at Harvard and the Carnegie Institution in Washington, DC . He also wrote a book on the history of geology.
In 1939 he received the Wollaston Medal . In 1917 he was President of the Geological Society of America . In 1896 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 1907 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1917 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 1920 the National Academy of Sciences . A McGill University building is named after him.
literature
- Thomas Clark, article Frank Dawson Adams , Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Birth and Development of the Geological Sciences , 1938, Reprint Dover 1952
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adams, Frank Dawson |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 1942 |
| Place of death | Montreal |