| Authorised form of name | Shackleton; Robert Millner (1909 - 2001) |
| Dates | 1909 - 2001 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 30/12/1909 |
| Date of death | 03/05/2001 |
| Research field | Geology |
| Activity | Education:
Liverpool University (1927-1932). BSc (1930, geology); PhD (1933)
Career:
Assistant Lecturer, Geology Department, Imperial College, London (1936); Geologist, Colonial Survey (during World War II); Professor of Geology, Liverpool University (1948); published 'Structural evolution of North Wales' (1954); produced geological maps of Donegal and Connemara, Ireland; Leeds University (1962); joined, later Director of, Research Institute of African Geology; held short-term appointments in several African universities; retired (1975); Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Open University (1975); led a joint Royal Society/Academia Sinica expedition to a geologically unknown part of Tibet (1985)
Memberships:
FGS (1938)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 18/03/1971 |
| Age at election | 61 |
| Relationships | Married: 1) (1934) Gwen Harland (marriage dissolved 1949), one son, two daughters; 2) (1949) Judith Jeffreys, painter, one son, one daughter (marriage dissolved 1975); 3) (1984) Peigi Wallace, palaeontologist (she died 16 May 2001) |
| Source | Sources:
Obituary: Times 15 June 2001
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2004 vol 50 pp 285-297, plate, by John Frederick Dewey and Bernard Elgey Leake
NCUACS 158/1/08 Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Robert Millner Shackleton FRS (1909-2001)' (2008) |
| Code | NA6984 |
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