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Authorised form of nameGilbert; Grove Karl (1843 - 1918); geologist
Dates1843 - 1918
NationalityAmerican
Place of birthRochester, New York, USA
Date of birth06 May 1843
Place of deathJackson, Michigan, USA
Date of death01/05/1918
Occupationgeologist
Research fieldSedimentology
Geology
Geomorphology
ActivityEducation:
University of Rochester, USA
Career: Employed at the Ward Natural Science Establishment, manufacturers and distributors of equipment for schools (1863-1868); joined Gorge M. Wheeler’s geographical survey (1871); transferred to the John Wesley Powell survey (1875); in charge of the Appalachian division of geology (1889-1892).
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election28/02/1918
Age at election75
ProposerJoseph John Thomson; Alfred Bray Kempe; Arthur Schuster; William Bate Hardy; William Abbott Herdman; Gilbert Charles Bourne; William Halse Rivers Rivers; Charles Scott Sherrington; Arthur Robertson Cushny
Hugh Kerr Anderson; James Swinburne; James Hopwood Jeans;James Whitbread Lee Glaisher; Robert John Strutt; Henry George Lyons; William Whitehead Watts; William Henry Lang; Bertram Hopkinson; George Beilby
Royal Society activityWollaston Medal 1900
Published worksRCN 8652
General contextStudied meteor craters in Arizona; lunar craters; and crustal movements around Lake Bonneville.
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DAB; DSB
Royal Society codeNA5103
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1918/02Gilbert, Grove Karl: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/19/347Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor Joseph Reynolds Green, Fellow of the Royal Society18 August 1899
NLB/62/719Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William Whitehead] Watts, FRS12 April 1922
MC/33/172Letter from [William Whitehead] Watts, Hillside, Langley Park, Sutton, Surrey, to Professor [Arthur] Schuster, [Royal Society]15 December 1918
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