Walter Campbell Smith

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Walter Campbell Smith , CBE (born November 30, 1887 in Solihull , † December 6, 1988 ) was a British mineralogist and petrologist .

Life

Walter Campbell Smith, a graduate of the Solihull School, devoted himself from 1906 to the studies of crystallography , mineralogy, geology and petrology at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge , which he graduated with honors in 1909. A year later he was appointed assistant to the Department of Mineralogy at the Natural History Museum . With the exception of his participation in the First World War and between 1939 and 1941 in the Second World War , he was professionally anchored there until his retirement in 1952. It was founded in 1931 as Deputy Curator, 1937 curator appointed. He also toured Europe in 1927 and North America in 1933 .

Walter Campbell Smith was a member and President of the Geological Society of London between 1955 and 1956 . He was honored by her in 1945 in recognition of his services in the fields of mineralogy and petrology by being awarded the Murchison Medal . He was also awarded the title “Commander of the Order of the British Empire” .

In 1936 he married Susan Finnegan, who was employed in the Department of Zoology. Walter Campbell Smith died on December 6, 1988 at the age of 101.

Although Smith's main scientific interest was mineralogy, he was initially concerned in 1913 with the extensive and recently acquired rock collection of the Geological Society. In the same year, the rock collection brought back by the Terra Nova Expedition went to the Natural History Museum. Smith wrote eight papers on the collection he oversees. A contribution co-authored with F. Debenham and RE Priestley dealt with the metamorphic rock in southern Victoria Land .

Smith focused on the analysis of the collections of igneous rocks from southern Victoria Land, the Ross Archipelago , Cape Adare and the Terra Nova Bay region, and also described the boulders from Granite Harbor and the Bay of Whales . In 1963 he completed the work with an attached geological overview map of southern Victoria Land.

Walter Campbell Smith - he was also involved in the exploration of the rock material collected by the Shackleton-Rowett expedition - also wrote numerous petrological treatises on magmatites, carbonatites and meteorites .

Fonts (selection)

  • The metamorphic Rocks of South Victoria Land ... , In: Volume 1; Volume 5 of Natural history reports: British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition, 1910 / British Museum (Natural History), 1921
  • Report on the geological collections made during the voyage of the "Quest" on the Shackleton-Rowett expedition to the South Atlantic & Weddell sea in 1921-1922 . In: British Museum, Natural History (Ed.), Printed by order of the trustees, 1930
  • A classification of some rhyolites, trachytes and phonolites from part of Kenya Colony: with a note on some associated basaltic rocks, In: Geological Society of London. Quarterly Journal; Vol. 87, Pt 2, 1931
  • Natural history report: Geology, Printed by order of the trustees of the British Museum, Sold by Quaritch, 1959
  • The volcanic rocks of Cape Adare, South Victoria Land . In: British Museum, Natural History (Ed.): Natural history reports, Geology (series), Vol. 2.2. British Museum, London 1959
  • Description of the igneous rocks represented among pebbles from the Bunter pebble beds of the Midlands of England, Volumes 1-2, In: Volume 2, Issue 1 of Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) .: Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History ), 1963
  • Volcanic rocks of Cape Adare and errativs from Terra Nova . In: British Museum, Natural History (ed.): Natural history reports, Geology (series), Vol. 2,3. British Museum, London 1963
  • Seventy years of research in mineralogy and crystallography in the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History), under the Keepership of Story-Maskelyne, Fletcher, and Prior, 1857-1927, In: Volume 10, Issue 2 of Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) .: Historical series. Bulletins. Historical series; 10/2 , British Museum (Natural History), 1982

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of Presidents of the Geological Society of London ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: www.geolsoc.org.uk @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geolsoc.org.uk
  2. ↑ List of the winners of the Murchison Medal ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: www.geolsoc.org.uk @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geolsoc.org.uk

literature

  • John C. Thackray, Natural History Museum (London, England), Society for the History of Natural History: A guide to the official archives of the Natural History Museum, London ; Page 127, Society for the History of Natural History on behalf of the Natural History Museum, 1998 ISBN 0901843083

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personal data
SURNAME Smith, Walter Campbell
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campbell Smith, Walter; Campbell-Smith, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mineralogist and petrologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Solihull
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1988