Frank Hawthorne

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Frank Christopher Hawthorne (born January 8, 1946 in Bristol ) is a Canadian mineralogist, crystallographer and crystal chemist. In 2001 he received a Canada Research Chair in crystallography and mineralogy at the University of Manitoba .

Hawthorne studied at Imperial College London with a bachelor's degree in 1968 and the Royal School of Mines (ARSM 1968, Associate of the Royal School of Mines) and was graduated from McMaster University in 1973 with H. Douglas Grundy with the thesis The crystal chemistry of the clino-amphiboles PhD in geology . He then went to the University of Manitoba, where he became a professor in 1984.

He deals with the hierarchical architecture of crystals, spectroscopy of minerals, crystal chemistry and crystal structure especially of amphiboles and pyroxenes .

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1990). He received the Willet G. Miller Medal in 1993, the Logan Medal in 1996 , the Schlumberger Medal of the Mineralogical Association of Great Britain in 1995 and the Hawley Medal of the Mineralogical Association of Canada in 1984 and 1998. He is a member of the Order of Canada .

The mineral Frankhawthorneit is named after him.

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  1. ↑ Life data according to Pamela Kalte et al. American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Frank Christopher Hawthorne at academictree.org, accessed on February 9, 2018th
  3. ↑ Hawthorne, Crystal chemistry of the amphiboles, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 9A 1981, pp. 1-102
  4. ^ Hawthorne, The crystal chemistry of the amphiboles, The Canadian Mineralogist 21, 1983, pp. 173-480
  5. ↑ Frankhawthorneite MineralData. Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hawthorne, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hawthorne, Frank Christopher (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian mineralogist, crystallographer and crystal chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol