Leonard G. Berry

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Leonard Gascoigne Berry (born 1914 in Toronto , † June 29, 1982 in Westport ) was a Canadian mineralogist .

Live and act

Berry studied geology at the University of Toronto with a bachelor's degree in 1937, a master's degree in 1938 and a doctorate with Martin A. Peacock in 1941. During World War II, he worked for four years in the optical industry in Toronto. In 1944 he became a lecturer and later professor of mineralogy and crystallography at Queen's University in Kingston. From 1967 he was Miller Memorial Research Professor and in 1979 he retired.

Among other things, he dealt with sulfosalts of lead and silver minerals and X-ray crystallography .

In 1963 he was President of the Mineralogical Society of America and in 1976 of the Mineralogical Association of Canada . In 1954 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . In 1957 he was one of the founders of the International Mineralogical Association , of which he was treasurer for a long time.

Honors and memberships

In 1963 Berry received the Willet G. Miller Medal of the Royal Society of Canada , of which he was a member. Since 1971 he has also been an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland and the Brazilian and Soviet Mineralogical Society.

The mineral berryite and the Leonard G. Berry Medal of the Mineralogical Association of Canada is named after him.

Fonts

  • with Brian Mason : Mineralogy. Concepts, descriptions, determinations. Freeman, San Francisco 1959, 2nd edition edited by RV Dietrich 1983.
  • with Brian Mason: Elements of Mineralogy. Freeman, San Francisco 1968.
  • with P. Bayliss, Mary E. Mrose, Deane K. Smith: Mineral Powder Diffraction File, Data Book and Search Manual. 1980.
  • with RM Thompson: X-ray powder data for the ore minerals. The Peacock Atlas, Geological Society of America, Memoir No. 85, 1962.

literature

  • John S. Stevenson: Memorial of Leonard G. Berry. 1914-1982 . In: American Mineralogist . tape 69 , 1984, pp. 588-590 ( minsocam.org [PDF]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John W. Anthony, Richard A. Bideaux, Kenneth W. Bladh, Monte C. Nichols: Berryite. In: Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineralogical Society of America , 2001 ( PDF 63.3 kB )
  2. ↑ Berry Medal
personal data
SURNAME Berry, Leonard G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berry, Leonard Gascoigne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1982
Place of death Westport