Charles Kenneth Leith
Charles Kenneth Leith (January 20, 1875 – September 13, 1956) was an American
Penrose Medal by the Geological Society of America,[1]
the highest award given in the geosciences.
Biography
Leith was born in
Ph.D. in 1901. In 1903, when Van Hise became president of the University of Wisconsin, he hired Leith as head of the geology department at the age of 28. Leith served as chair until 1934 (31 years), and remained with the department until he retired in 1945.[2] He also lectured on structural and metamorphic geology at the University of Chicago beginning in 1905.[3]
During a 1909 expedition in the
U.S. Shipping Board and the War Industries Board during World War I.[2][4] He organized studies of world mineral supplies in the 1920s and served on many government agencies, including the Atomic Energy Commission, through the 1950s.[2]
Leith was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1916,[9] the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1920,[10] and the American Philosophical Society in 1926.[11]
Leith served as president of the Geological Society of America in 1933.[12]
Leith won the Penrose Gold Medal of the Society of Economic Geologists in 1935.[13] In June 1956 he received an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Wisconsin.[14]
Leith died at his home in Madison in 1956.[2][15]
Works
- A Summer and Winter on Hudson Bay (1912)
- Structural Geology (1913)
- Metamorphic Geology (1915)
- The Economic Aspect of Geology (1921)
- The Political Control of Mineral Resources (1925)
- World Minerals and World Politics : A Factual Study of Minerals in Their Political and International Relations (New York: Whittlesey House, 1931).
- World Minerals and World Peace (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1943).
See also
References
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- ^ a b Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
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- ^ "Charles Kenneth Leith". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
- ^ "Charles K. Leith". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
- ISBN 0-8137-1155-X.
- ^ "Penrose Gold Medal". Society of Economic Geologists. Archived from the original on 28 December 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
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Further reading
- Dott, Robert H. Jr. "The Wisconsin School of Geology: Early Intellectual Exports". Wisconsin Academy Review, vol. 45, no. 3 (Summer 1999): 29-36.
- Lund, Richard Jacob. Memorial to Charles Kenneth Leith, 1875–1956. Geological Society of America, 1957.
- Hewett, D. F. Charles Kenneth Leith 1875-1956: A Biographical Memoir. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1959.
- Mcgrath, Sylvia Freeman Wallace. Charles Kenneth Leith: Scientific Adviser. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Charles Kenneth Leith.
- The C. K. Leith Fund, University of Wisconsin
- Works by Charles Kenneth Leith at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Charles Kenneth Leith at Internet Archive
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