Lewis Leigh Fermor

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Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor OBE FRS (born September 18, 1880 in Peckham , † May 24, 1954 in Horsell , Surrey ) was a British geologist and the first President of the Indian National Science Academy .

Lewis Leigh Fermor is the father of the writer Patrick Leigh Fermor .

biography

Lewis Leigh Fermor was born in Peckham, south London, to a bank clerk. He studied metallurgy at the Royal School of Mines , supported by a scholarship.

He applied for a position with the Geological Survey of India and went to India in 1902. He founded geological research in India. His main research areas were the Archean as well as igneous and metamorphic rocks. He was the curator of the geological collection of the Indian Museum in Calcutta.

In 1909 he was awarded a Doctor of Science from the University of London. He was the first to describe the mineral hollandite in 1906. The mineral fermorite , which he discovered in 1910, was named after him. He became Superintendent of the Geological Survey in 1910 and was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his services to the Indian Railway Board and the Indian Munitions Board during the First World War.

1921 he was awarded the Geological Society of London , the Bigsby Medal for his research on shells as geological pressure indicator, which indicated what had been exposed Press rocks. He was a founding member of the Mining and Geological Institute of India and its president in 1922. From 1932 to 1935 he was director of the Geological Survey of India . He was a trustee of the Indian Museum from 1930 to 1935 and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1934. In 1936 he was promoted to Knight Bachelor . In 1935 he became the first elected President of the National Institute of Sciences of India. After resigning from the position of director of the Geological Survey in 1935, he continued to work mainly in India, but also visited Kenya and South Africa. In 1945 he became President of the Bristol Naturalists' Society and was Vice President of the Geological Society of London from 1945 to 1947.

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  1. ↑ Transactions of the Mining and Geological Institute of India, August, 1906 (PDF; 5.0 MB)
  2. ↑ Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
personal data
SURNAME Fermor, Lewis Leigh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English geologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Peckham
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1954
Place of death Horsell , Surrey