Stuart McKerrow
William Stuart McKerrow (born June 28, 1922 in Glasgow , † June 12, 2004 ) was a British paleontologist and geologist . He was considered a leading paleoecologist . He researched and taught at Oxford University .
Life
McKerrow studied in Glasgow from 1940 , interrupted by military service in the Royal Navy during World War II as a radio operator. In 1947 he graduated from Glasgow with a degree in geology and became a demonstrator at Oxford . Under William J. Arkell he did his doctorate there on brachiopods of the middle Jurassic. He became a lecturer at Oxford and a founding fellow of Wolfson College, founded in 1966.
McKerrow was visiting scholar in California, Chicago, Edmonton, Auckland and in Massachusetts. His preferred study area was Oxfordshire and Arran, the Scottish Highlands, south-west Ireland and Newfoundland. He worked with Trond Helge Torsvik , among others, on the reconstruction of plate tectonics in the Paleozoic and before.
He was an honorary member of the Palaeontological Association . In 1981 he received the Lyell Medal . In 1978 he received a D. Sc. in Oxford.
He had been married since 1949 and had three sons.
Fonts
- Editor and co-author: The Ecology of Fossils, MIT Press 1978 (McKerrow wrote the introduction and with Robin Cocks the sections Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian)
- German edition: Paläoökologie, Kosmos-Franckh 1981
Web links
- photo
- McKerrow Papers
- Obituary for Stuart McKerrow on the Geological Society of London website ; accessed on July 16, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McKerrow, Stuart |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McKerrow, Stuart William (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British paleontologist and geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glasgow |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 2004 |