Frederick William Shotton

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Frederick William Shotton MBE FRS (born October 8, 1906 - July 21, 1990 ) was a British geologist and professor in Birmingham .

education

Shotton grew up in Coventry . He attended the local Barlake School , a private school. He then studied science and geology at Cambridge . He received his bachelor's degree with First Class Honors in 1921 ; H. with top grade. He was only awarded his doctorate in 1947 after the Second World War .

Military geologist

Shotton became a member of the reserve in 1938, but was not drafted until 1940 and worked as a geologist for the Royal Engineers , first in England, then in the Middle East, where he carried out hydrological studies on the water supply for the troops, which ultimately also contributed to the success of the 8th Army in the Contributed to Second Battle of El Alamein in 1942. He then worked on special maps and geological studies on the navigability of the beaches in preparation for the landing of the Allied troops in Normandy . For his military services he was made a member of the Order of the British Empire after the war ,

Teaching and Research

After the war Shotton was a brief professor at Sheffield University . From 1949 until his retirement in 1974 he headed the geology department at the University of Birmingham . His main research area was the geology of the Midlands . In 1954 he received the Prestwich Medal of the Geological Society of London . He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956 . From 1964 to 1966 he was President of the Geological Society of London. The Shotton snowfield in the East Antarctic Coatsland is named in his honor.

Fonts

Shotton's contributions to the Quaternary and Pleistocene appeared a. a. in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London or the Proceedings of the Coventry Natural History and Scientific Society .

  • Publisher: British quaternary studies. Recent advances. Clarendon, London 1977, ISBN 0-19-854414-6 .

literature

  • GR Coope: Frederick William Shotton. October 8, 1906-21 July 1990 , Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 39 (Feb. 1994), pp. 418-432.
  • David Prudames: Geologist's Top Secret D-Day Research Uncovered. On Culture24 from June 2, 2004.
  • EPF Rose, JC Clatworthy: Fred Shotton: a 'hero' of military applications of geology during World War II. In: Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology , Volume 41, 2007, pp. 171-188 ( doi : 10.1144 / 1470- 9236 / 07-034 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edward PF Rose, C. Paul Nathanail (Ed.): Geology and Warfare, Examples of the Influence of Terrain and Geologists on Military Operations. Geological Society, Bath 2000, ISBN 1-86239-065-7 , pp. 121-122.
  2. ↑ http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiogmem/39/418
personal data
SURNAME Shotton, Frederick William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shotton, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1906
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1990