Stephen Robert Nockolds
Stephen Robert Nockolds (born May 10, 1909 in St Columb Major in Cornwall , † February 7, 1990 ) was a British geochemist and petrograph, mainly of igneous rocks.
Nockolds had been interested in geology since his youth, studied at the University of Manchester and received his PhD from Trinity College, University of Cambridge . He became a Fellow of Trinity College, where he lectured on petrography. In 1957 he became a reader for geochemistry. In 1972 he retired.
In Great Britain he characterizes the transition of the classical school of petrography by Alfred Harker under the influence of foreign scientists, especially the geochemist Victor Moritz Goldschmidt and the experimental methods of Norman L. Bowen .
From 1959 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society and an Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of India . In 1972 he received the Murchison Medal .
Fonts
- with GA Chinner, RW O'B. Knox: Petrology for Students, Cambridge University Press 1978
literature
- ID Muir, Biographical Memoirs Fellows Royal Society, Volume 40, 1994, 308-326
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| SURNAME | Nockolds, Stephen Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geochemist and petrographer mainly of igneous rocks |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St Columb Major , Cornwall |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1990 |