Thomas Stanley Westoll
Prof Thomas Stanley Westoll,
Education and career
He was born in West Hartlepool the son of Horace Stanley Raine Westoll. He was educated at the West Hartlepool Grammar School. He then studied Sciences on a scholarship at Durham University, specialising in geology and palaeontology, graduating BSc in 1932.[2]
Continuing as a postgraduate he gained his first doctorate (PhD) in 1934 from research on Permian fishes. In 1937 he began lecturing in Geology and Mineralogy at
In 1948 he left Aberdeen to return to England as Professor of Geology at the University of Newcastle, staying there until his retirement in 1977. In retirement he remained as a research fellow and Chairman of Convocation.[4]
He was elected a Fellow of the
He was on the council of the Royal Society and from 1972 to 1974 was President of the Geological Society of London.
He died in Newcastle upon Tyne on 19 September 1995.
Family
He married twice: firstly in 1939 to Dorothy Cecil Isobel Wood, then, following divorce in 1951, in 1952 he married Barbara Swanson McAdie.[7]
Research interests
His research interests were wide-ranging, but he is best known for his work on the evolution of fish. The development of the tetrapod limb and issues with the Silurian-Devonian boundary were some of the topics which occupied him. Throughout a long academic career he made forceful and important contributions in these and other fields.
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Publications
- Studies on Fossil Vertebrates (1958)
- Geology of the USSR (1973)
References
- ^ S2CID 71845120.
- ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
- ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
- ^ "Thomas Stanley Westoll" (PDF). Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2006. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ "Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007ll". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 24 March 2010. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ "Library and Archive Catalog". London: The Royal Society. Retrieved 20 July 2010.[permanent dead link]
- ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
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