Thomas Leonard Walker
Thomas Leonard Walker (born December 31, 1867 in Brampton , Ontario , † August 6, 1942 in Toronto ) was a Canadian mineralogist .
Life
Walker studied at Queen's University in Kingston with a master's degree in 1890 and received his doctorate from Leipzig University in 1896 . From 1897 to 1901 he was assistant superintendent at the Geological Survey of India . In 1901 he returned to Canada and was Professor of Mineralogy and Petrography at the University of Toronto from 1901 to 1937 and at the same time from 1912 to 1937 first director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Mineralogy.
Walker is considered to be the first to describe various minerals such as Spencerite (1916), Schoepit (1923) and Chapmanite (1924). A mineral he described as lusitanite was identified as identical to spencerite in later investigations.
Fonts
- Crystallography, an outline of the geometrical properties of crystals , McGraw Hill 1914
Honors
Walker was an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland and from 1919 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada , whose Flavelle Medal he received in 1941. In 1938 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Toronto (D. Sc.). He was a founding member of the Mineralogical Society of America .
The Walker Mineralogical Club in Toronto and the mineral Walkerit are named after him.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ TL Walker: Spencerite, a new Zinc Phosphate from British Columbia. ( PDF 796.8 kB )
- ↑ Mindat - Spencerite
- ^ Foundation of the MSA
- ↑ Webmineral
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walker, Thomas Leonard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian mineralogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | near Brampton , Ontario |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1942 |
| Place of death | Toronto |