George William Brindley

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George William Brindley (born June 19, 1905 in Stoke-on-Trent , † October 23, 1983 ) was a British - American physicist and mineralogist who dealt in particular with clay minerals.

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Brindley (who was related to the 18th century canal builder James Brindley ) studied physics at Manchester University with Lawrence Bragg and RW James with a master’s degree in 1928 and received his doctorate at the University of Leeds in 1933 , where he was then lecturer and from 1948 Reader in X-ray Physics was. At that time he dealt with X-ray crystallography and solid state physics . He originally came from theoretical physics . His turn to the mineralogy of clay minerals came after World War II. In 1953 he went to the USA, where he set up a mineralogical laboratory at Pennsylvania State University . He initially held a research professorship there, and from 1955 he was Professor of Solid State Technology and Director of the Ceramic Technology Department. In 1962 he became Professor of Mineralogy ( Mineral Sciences ). In 1973 he officially retired, but remained active at the university.

Until 1945 he dealt with X-ray diffraction in solid-state physics and line broadening in metals through deformation and heating (certain scattering factors were named after him and RW James). He dealt with the identification of clay minerals from X-ray crystallography. With K. Robinson he determined the structure of kaolinite and also of dickite , halloysite , serpentine and minerals of the chlorite group .

Honors and memberships

He was an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland and received the Roebling Medal . He was an honorary doctor of the University of Leuven. He was Associate Editor of Clay and Clay Minerals and American Mineralogist. Brindley was president of the Clay Minerals Society.

The new mineral brindleyite described by Z. Maksimovic and DL Bish in 1978 is named after him.

Fonts

  • X-ray identification and crystal structure of clay minerals, The Mineralogical Society, London 1951
  • with G. Brown (editor): Crystal structures of clay minerals and their x-ray identification, Mineralogical Society, London 1980 (new edition of the book from 1951)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The structure of kaolinite , Mineralogical Magazine, Volume 27, 1947, pp. 242-253
  2. ↑ John W. Anthony, Richard A. Bideaux, Kenneth W. Bladh, Monte C. Nichols: Brindleyite , in: Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineralogical Society of America , 2001 ( PDF 64 kB )
personal data
SURNAME Brindley, George William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American mineralogist and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Stoke-on-Trent
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1983