Ian Carmichael | |
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| Born | Ian Stuart Edward Carmichael |
| Education | Westminster School |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, MA) Imperial College London (PhD) |
| Known for | Thermodynamics of igneous systems |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Volcanic geology of Thingmuli, eastern Iceland (1962) |
| Doctoral advisor | George P. L. Walker[1] |
| Notable students | Wes Hildreth, Charles R. Bacon, Mark S. Ghiorso, Jim Luhr, Rebecca Lange |
Ian Stuart Edward Carmichael, FRS (29 March 1930 –26 August 2011) was a British-born American igneous petrologist and volcanologist who established extensive quantitative methods for research in the thermodynamics of magmas.[2][3]
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Education
Carmichael was educated at Westminster School in London. He obtained a B.A. and M.A. in geology from the University of Cambridge in 1954, and his Ph.D. in 1958 from Imperial College London, where he wrote his thesis on Iceland's Thingmuli volcano.[1]
Career and research
In 1964 Carmichael moved to the United States and became a member of the faculty at University of California, Berkeley, where he remained throughout his life.[2]
Awards and honours
Carmichael was the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions including a Gedenkschrift, An issue honoring Ian S. E. Carmichael, in the September, 2013, issue of Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1992, the Arthur L. Day Medal from the Geological Society of America, the Bowen Award from the American Geophysical Union, and the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland's 1992 Schlumberger Award. The mineral carmichaelite (IMA1996-062) was named in his honor.
Carmichael was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999. He was also a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the Mineralogical Society of America, and the American Geophysical Union.[4]
References
- ^ a b Carmichael, Ian Stuart Edward (1962). Volcanic geology of Thingmuli, Eastern Iceland (PhD thesis). Imperial College London. hdl:10044/1/13654. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.602161.
- ^ a b Lange, Rebecca (14 February 2012). "Ian S. E. Carmichael (1930–2011)". Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 93 (7): 68. Bibcode:2012EOSTr..93...68L. doi:10.1029/2012EO070006.
- ^ Wood, Bernard. "Ian Stuart Edward Carmichael 1930-2011". The Geological Society of London. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
- ^ Ghiorso, Mark S.; Moore, Gordon; Wallace, Paul J. (1 September 2013). "An issue honoring Ian S. E. Carmichael". Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 166 (3): 655–663. Bibcode:2013CoMP..166..655G. doi:10.1007/s00410-013-0930-1.
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