| Authorised form of name | Tilley; Cecil Edgar (1894 - 1973) |
| Dates | 1894 - 1973 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Place of birth | Adelaide, Australia |
| Date of birth | 14 May 1894 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |
| Date of death | 24/01/1973 |
| Research field | Mineralogy |
| Petrology |
| Activity | Career:
Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 17/03/1938 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
VP 1949-1950
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1967 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB vol 18 pp 914-919
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1974 vol 20 pp 381-400, plate, by W A Deer and S R Nockolds |
| Code | NA2210 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/004609 | Tilley, Cecil Edgar | nd |
| RR/67/55 | Referee's report by Cecil Edgar Tilley, on a paper 'Isomorphous replacement and superlattice structures in the plagioclase felspars' by S H Chao and W H Taylor | 13 May 1940 |
| RR/68/205 | Second referee's report by Cecil Edgar Tilley, on a paper 'The stone-iron meteorites called pallasites: a synthetic study of their structure and probable mode of formation' by Robert John Strutt | 21 August 1941 |
| RR/68/204 | Referee's report by Cecil Edgar Tilley, on a paper 'The stone-iron meteorites called pallasites: a synthetic study of their structure and probable mode of formation' by Robert John Strutt | 8 July 1941 |
| EC/1938/18 | Tilley, Cecil Edgar: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/66/51 | Referee's report by Cecil Edgar Tilley, on a paper 'The lamellar structure of potash-soda felspars' by S H Chao and W H Taylor | 19 October 1939 |