British-American geologist (1930–2011)
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 magma .
Early life and education
Carmichael was born on 29 March 1930 in London ,[2] and was raised in the town of Haywards Heath . He was educated at Westminster School in London from age six until his senior year of high school, when he took an exchange trip to Connecticut ; he stayed in the United States and enrolled in the Colorado School of Mines . He studied there for one semester before returning to England, where he was drafted into the British Army . He served in Egypt , Palestine , and Sudan for two years before joining the University of Cambridge . He obtained Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in geology from Cambridge in 1954,[3] and his Ph.D. in 1958 from Imperial College London , where he wrote his thesis on Iceland 's Thingmuli volcano.[1]
Career and research
After completing his thesis, Carmichael worked as a lecturer at Imperial College. In 1963, he began a six-month leave to work at the University of Chicago . He applied for more time at the conclusion of his term, but was rejected. Carmichael was invited to give a lecture at the University of California, Berkeley , which led to him starting a tenured position as an associate professor .[4] He remained at Berkeley for the remainder of his career, and retired from the university in 2004.[5]
In 2004,[6] Carmichael was the volume 1 editor of B. J. Wood 's Landmark Papers series.[7]
Awards and honours
Carmichael was the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions including a special issue of Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology published in his honor in 2013, the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 's 1992 Mineralogical Society–Schlumberger Award,[8] a Guggenheim Fellowship that same year, the Arthur L. Day Medal in 1991, and the Bowen Award [de ] in 1986.
Carmichael was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1999, and an honorary fellow of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2004.[9] He was also a fellow of the Geological Society of America , the Mineralogical Society of America , and the American Geophysical Union .[10] The mineral carmichaelite ,[11] as well as the Geological Society of America's Carmichael Student Research Grants program, are both named in his honor.[12]
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 .
^ Lange, Rebecca (14 February 2012). "Ian S. E. Carmichael (1930–2011)" . Eos . 93 (7): 68. Bibcode :2012EOSTr..93...68L . doi :10.1029/2012EO070006 .
^ Lange, Rebecca (1 September 2011). "[Ian S. E. Carmichael (1930–2011)]" . Geochemical Society . Retrieved 23 May 2024 .
^ Wood, Bernard . "[Ian Stuart Edward Carmichael, 1930–2011]" . The Geological Society of London . Retrieved 23 May 2024 .
^ Sanders, Robert (15 September 2011). "UC Berkeley volcano expert Ian Carmichael has died at 81" . Berkeley News . University of California, Berkeley . Retrieved 23 May 2024 .
^ Kerr, A. C. (August 2004). "[Review: Landmark Papers: Volcanic Petrology ]" . Mineralogical Magazine . 68 (4): 715–716. doi :10.1180/S0026461X00041827 .
^ "Landmark papers" . Mineralogical Society of the United Kingdom and Ireland . Retrieved 24 May 2024 .
^ "1992 Mineralogical Society–Schlumberger Award" . Mineralogical Magazine . 57 (388): 545–548. September 1993. doi :10.1180/minmag.1993.057.388.19 .
^ "[Honorary membership/fellowship]" . Mineralogical Society of the United Kingdom and Ireland . Retrieved 24 May 2024 .
^ Ghiorso, Mark S. ; Moore, Gordon; Wallace, Paul J. (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 .
^ UC Berkeley Office of Public Affairs (2011). "Ian S. E. Carmichael" . Academic Senate . University of California . Retrieved 24 May 2024 .
^ "Carmichael Student Research Grants" . Mineralogy Geochemistry Petrology Volcanology Division . Geological Society of America . Retrieved 24 May 2024 .
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