Norman Levi Bowen, 1887-1956

1957 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 6-22 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Petrology ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Mining Institute ◽  
Lake Area ◽  
Carnegie Institution ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Carnegie Institution Of Washington ◽  
The University

Norman Levi Bowen, Research Associate of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and one of the great pioneers in experimental petrology, died in Washington D.C. on 11 September 1956 in his seventieth year. He was born at Kingston, Ontario, on 21 June 1887, the younger son of William Alfred Bowen, a Londoner by birth, who had come to settle in Canada. Bowen attended school in Kingston and in the autumn of 1903 entered Queen’s University, registering in the Faculty of Arts. There he took an honours course in chemistry and mineralogy, graduating with the degree of M.A. in 1907 with the University medals in both subjects. In the same year he entered the School of Mining completing the B.Sc. degree course in 1909 in mineralogy and geology. Among his professors at Queen’s were R. W. Brock, subsequently Director of the Geological Survey of Canada, M. B. Baker and W. Nicol. E. L. Bruce and W. L. Uglow who later achieved distinction in geology were among his contemporaries. During his University career at Kingston he became engaged in field work for the Ontario Bureau of Mines, first in the summer of 1907 with Brock on a geological survey at Larder Lake, and in succeeding field seasons with M. B. Baker at Lake Abitibi (1908) and in the Gowganda Lake area in 1909, working there under the general supervision of A. G. Burrows. The results of his studies in these years appeared in two contributions, the first as a student’s paper in 1909 on diabase and aplite of the cobalt-silver area — which was awarded first prize by the Canadian Mining Institute and the President’s gold medal; the second appeared in 1910 in the Journal of Geology .

The Roman Propaganda Fide Archives: An Overflow and Assessment

1964 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-91
Author(s):  
John B. Mcgloin
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
American History ◽  
Carnegie Institution ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Standard Tool ◽  
Carnegie Institution Of Washington ◽  
The University ◽  
The Catholic Church

In 1908–09 Professor Carl Russell Fish of the University of Wisconsin was commisioned as a Research Associate by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., and sent abroad to visit and assess the materials for American history to be found in the various archives of Italy. Out of his labors, done with the precision of a trained historian, came a volume which has long been a standard tool for students and researchers in this field: Fish's Guide to the Materials for American History in Roman and Other Italian Archives, published in 1911 by the Carnegie Institution. Pages 119–95 are devoted to an analysis of those archives of the Catholic Church which are commonly called the Archives of the Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide in Rome. Fish's analysis is preceded by a brief historical account of this important arm in the ordinary government of the Catholic Church from 1622 (the date of its establishment) until 1911.

scholarly journals Two PopII Cepheids in the Globular Cluster M10

1985 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 260-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Clement ◽  
H. Sawyer Hogg ◽  
K. Lake
Keyword(s):  
Globular Cluster ◽  
Horizontal Branch ◽  
Carnegie Institution ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The Third ◽  
Irregular Variable ◽  
Carnegie Institution Of Washington ◽  
The University

The globular cluster Messier 10 has three known variables. The first two of these were discovered by one of us (Sawyer 1933) and the third by Arp (1955). Two of the variables, V2 (P=18.7226) and V3 (P=7.831), are population II cepheids while V1 appears to be an irregular variable. Another star which lies in the Schwarzschild gap on the horizontal branch is a suspected variable (Voroshilov 1971).In this investigation, we examine the variations in the periods of the two cepheids over the interval 1912 to 1983 (for V2) and 1931 to 1983 (for V3). The study is based on photographs obtained with seven different telescopes - the Mt.Wilson 100-inch and 60-inch (1912 to 1919), the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory 72-inch, the David Dunlap 74-inch and 19-inch, the 16-inch at the University of Toronto downtown campus and the University of Toronto 24-inch at the Las Campanas Observatory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Some of our magnitudes have already been published (Sawyer 1938) and the remaining ones will be submitted to the Astronomical Journal for publication. We have also included material published by Arp (1955, 1957) in our study.

The American Countercurrent - Eastward Flow of Geologists and Their Ideas in the Late Nineteenth Century

1990 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Dott
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Experimental Petrology ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mountain Building ◽  
Precambrian Geology ◽  
Carnegie Institution Of Washington ◽  
Foreign Correspondent ◽  
International Geological Congress ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Whereas the trans-Atlantic flow of geological knowledge previously had been overwhelmingly westward, by the mid-nineteenth century, an eastward countercurrent had begun. That flow increased rapidly after the Civil War, when geology was at the forefront in the maturation of science in America. H.D. Rogers was appointed Regius Professor at the University of Glasgow in 1855. James Hall was chosen to be Organizing President of the first International Geological Congress in Paris (1878) and the first English-speaking foreign correspondent of the Academy of Sciences of France (1884). James D. Dane was almost as well known abroad as Hall, especially for his mountain-building theory. Increasingly, American theoretical contributions had to be reckoned with in such fields as Mountain Building, Structural and Precambrian Geology, Geomorphology and Glacial Geology, and Paleontology. By the first decade of the twentieth century, America had seized the initiative on several fronts, but especially in experimental petrology and physics of the earth's interior through the creation of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

James Buckland Mawdsley (1894-1964)

ARCTIC ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
A.R. Byers
Keyword(s):  
Great Influence ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Field Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Lake Area ◽  
Northern Canada ◽  
Geographical Society ◽  
The North

James Buckland Mawdsley, M.B.E., Ph.D., F.R.S.C., a Charter Associate of the Arctic Institute of North America, died very suddenly on 3 December 1964 at the age of 70. As Director of the Institute for Northern Studies, University of Saskatchewan, he played a major role in its organization and development and exerted a very great influence on research in northern Canada. He was born on 22 July 1894 near Siena, Italy, the son of British-American parents. In 1904 the Mawdsley family left Italy and settled in the village of Gainsborough, southeastern Saskatchewan. After receiving his public and high school training in Saskatchewan he entered McGill University in 1913. His career, like that of many of his contemporaries, was interrupted by the First World War. Twice wounded in France, first with the Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry and then as a pilot with the Royal Flying Corps, he was awarded the M.B.E. at the end of the war. In 1919 he returned to McGill and two years later graduated in Mining Engineering. He then went to Princeton University where he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Geology in 1924. That same year he joined the Geological Survey of Canada and for the next five years applied his scientific knowledge to the problems of the regional geology of northwestern Quebec. A new chapter in his life began in 1929 when he accepted the appointment of professor and head of the Department of Geology at the University of Saskatchewan, a position he held until he became Dean of Engineering in 1961 and also the Director of the Institute for Northern Studies. In 1963 he retired as Dean and was then able to devote all his time to the affairs of the Institute. In addition to his academic duties his professional activities included field work in northern Saskatchewan for the Geological Survey of Canada and the Saskatchewan Department of Mineral Resources, and private consulting assignments took him to other parts of northern Canada, to the United States and Great Britain. He was the author of 51 scientific papers and his honours were many. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1933 and was chairman of Section IV for the year 1954-55. He was president of the Geological Association of Canada during 1955-56 and of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy for 1961-62. In 1953 he was awarded the Institute's Barlow Memorial Medal in recognition of his paper entitled "Uraninite-bearing deposits, Charlebois Lake area, northeastern Saskatchewan". He was a Fellow and Director of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, a member of the Society of Economic Geologists, the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Association of Professional Engineers of Saskatchewan. He had an eventful life, travelled widely, met and was a friend to many people. Such qualities as tact, kindliness, sincerity and respect for the thoughts of others enabled him to present his views without arousing undue antagonism, and to cooperate with others in reaching decisions. Recognized as an able administrator, scientist, and teacher, perhaps his greatest service will prove to be the influence he had on those who worked or studied under him. In them he not only instilled a feeling of scientific curiosity but also a keen interest and love of the North.

scholarly journals A tribute to the life and work of George W. Wetherill: Some reflections of his career at DTM

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (S236) ◽  
pp. xxi-xxiv
Author(s):  
Douglas O. ReVelle
Keyword(s):  
University Of California ◽  
Postdoctoral Fellow ◽  
Carnegie Institution ◽  
Harvard College ◽  
Terrestrial Magnetism ◽  
Earth’S Atmosphere ◽  
Carnegie Institution Of Washington ◽  
Earth's Atmosphere ◽  
Harvard College Observatory ◽  
The University

George Wetherill and I worked together as scientific collaborators when I was a postdoctoral fellow in 1977-1978 at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW) in Washington, D.C. We worked on problems of meteoroids interacting in Earth's atmosphere along with Richard McCrosky at Harvard College Observatory and Zdeněk Ceplecha at the Ondřejov Observatory in Czechoslovakia and also with Sundar Rajan who had already arrived at DTM from the University of California at Berkeley before me.

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