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.
Ian S. E. Carmichael | |
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| Born | Ian Stuart Edward Carmichael 29 March 1930 |
| Died | 26 August 2011 (aged 81) |
| Education | Westminster School |
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| 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 | |
Early life and education
editCarmichael 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
editAfter 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
editCarmichael 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 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
edit- ^ 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.
