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Authorised form of nameStewart; Sir; Frederick Henry (1916 - 2001)
Dates1916 - 2001
NationalityBritish
Place of birthAberdeen, Scotland
Date of birth16/01/1916
Place of deathOban, Argyll
Date of death09/12/2001
Research fieldGeology
ActivityEducation:
Fettes College; Robert Gordon's College; Aberdeen University; Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Career:
Research division, ICI (World War 2); Lecturer in Geology, Durham University (1943-1956); Regius Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, Edinburgh University (1956-1982); Dean, Faculty of Science, Edinburgh University (1966-1968); Chairman, National Environment Research Council (NERC) (1971); Emeritus Professor, Edinburgh University (from 1982); Trustee, Natural History Museum (1983-1987)
Honours:
Kt 1974
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election19/03/1964
Age at election48
Royal Society activityRoyal Society roles:
Council: 1969-1971
RelationshipsMarried (1945) Mary Rainbow (the author Mary Stewart)
SourcesObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2006 vol 52 pp 331-348, plate, by M J O'Hara
Obituaries: Indepndent (17 December 2001), Guardian (19 December 2001)
Royal Society codeNA4816
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
HWT/32/2Letter from President of the Royal Society (Alan Lloyd Hodgkin) to members of Committee enclosing 'preliminary draft of a memorandum which might form the basis of our reply to Lord Rothschild'16 June 1971
IM/004400Stewart, Sir Frederick Henrynd
HWT/14/4Correspondence and papersSeptember - December 1974
HWT/32/3Agenda, papers and minutes of meeting held 5 July 1971July 1971
EC/1964/24Stewart, Frederick Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/926/8/2/3Administrative papers relating to the Planetary Sciences Study Group and the Subcommittee on Planetary Sciences, of Colin Pillinger6 October 1970 - May 1979
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