Paul Francis Kerr

Paul Francis Kerr (born February 12, 1897 in Hemet , California - † February 27, 1981 ) was an American mineralogist .

He studied at Occidental College ( Bachelor 1919), where he financed the study by working on orchards and in agriculture, and received his doctorate in 1923 from Stanford University . He then taught for a year at Stanford before he went to Columbia University in 1924 , where he was Professor of Mineralogy (from 1959 as Newberry Professor ) and from 1944 to 1950 head of its faculty. In 1965 he retired. He later moved to California and was a consulting professor at Stanford University until 1977 .

He dealt with clay mineralogy ( Quickton ), tungsten minerals, X-ray crystallography, uranium mineralogy and deposits, alteration . From 1934 to 1944 he was secretary and 1946 president of the Mineralogical Society of America . In 1947 he was Vice President of the Geological Society of America .

At Columbia University he was instrumental in founding the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory . He has been an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland since 1972 . In 1960 he received an honorary doctorate from Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Fonts

• Paul Francis Kerr: Optical mineralogy . 4th edition. McGraw-Hill, New York 1977.

literature

• Otto C. Kopp: Memorial of Paul Francis Kerr . In: American Mineralogist . tape 69 , no. 5-6 , 1984, pp. 586-587 ( PDF file ).