William Whitehead Watts

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William Whitehead Watts (born June 7, 1860 in Broseley , Shropshire , † July 30, 1947 ) was a British geologist.

Watts attended Denstone College and Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge University , where he was a Fellow from 1888 to 1894, graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1882 and his master's degree in 1885. From 1882 to 1891 he was Extension Lecturer at Cambridge and taught in Oxford in 1888. After doing some geological fieldwork in Shropshire with Charles Lapworth , he was with the Geological Survey from 1891 and mapped for this in Ireland and in the Charnwood Forest. From 1897 he was a professor at Birmingham University and from 1906 at Imperial College . From 1910 to 1912 he was President of the Geological Society of London , after having been its secretary from 1898.

In 1904 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society in London and in 1934 the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In 1915 he received the Murchison Medal and in 1927 the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London. In 1909 he received a Sc. D. at Cambridge. In 1935 he became an honorary member of the Geological Association . The Watts Needle in Coatsland, East Antarctica, has been named after him since 1972 .

Fonts

  • Geology for Beginners 1898
  • Shropshire, the geography of the county, Shrewsbury 1919, online
  • Petrographic Appendix to George William Lamplugh Geology of the Isle of Man , London 1903
  • with Alexander McHenry: Guide to the collections of rocks and fossils belonging to the Geological Survey of Ireland, Museum of Science and Art, Dublin 1895
  • The geological work of Charles Lapworth, Birmingham 1921, online

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 20, 2020 .
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personal data
SURNAME Watts, William Whitehead
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Broseley
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1947