James Edwin Hawley

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James Edwin Hawley , called Ed Hawley , (born September 27, 1897 in Kingston , Ontario , † April 20, 1965 in Tucson , Arizona ) was a Canadian geologist and mineralogist and professor at Queen's University (Kingston) .

Life

Hawley grew up in Kingston and studied at Queen's University in Kingston with a bachelor's degree in 1918 and a master's degree in 1920. He then worked as a petroleum geologist in Alberta , Ecuador , Burma and India . In 1926 he received his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and was then assistant professor there, before he became professor of mineralogy at Queen's University in Kingston in 1929. After founding the Faculty of Geosciences, he became its head in 1950. In 1962 he retired.

He dealt mainly with the formation of ore deposits and their mineralogy, especially in Canada. For example, in 1962 he authored a large study of the nickel ore deposits in Sudbury . He also studied Precambrian stratigraphy and early life in the Archean. His early works deal with the formation of crude oil in rock through the pressure of shear forces. Since he was a leading consulting geologist in Canada, much of his work remained confidential, but he published around 60 papers.

The mineral hawleyite was named after him.

He received the Willet G. Miller Medal and the Logan Medal . The Hawley Medal of the Mineralogical Association of Canada is named after him (for the best publication in the Canadian Mineralogist of the previous year).

In 1949 he initiated the establishment of the National Advisory Committee on Research in Geological Sciences in Canada.

Web links

  • James Edwin Hawley from JM Harrison 1963 with list of publications (English, PDF, 231 kB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Sudbory ores: their mineralogy and origin, The Canadian Mineralogist, Volume 7, 1962, 1-207
  2. ↑ Generation of oil in rocks by shearing pressures, 3 parts, Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, Volume 13, 1929, 303-328, 329-365, Volume 14, 1930, 451-481
personal data
SURNAME Hawley, James Edwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hawley, Ed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian geologist and mineralogist and professor at Queen's University (Kingston)
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1965
Place of death Tucson , Arizona