Authorised form of name | Gilbert; Grove Karl (1843 - 1918); geologist |
Dates | 1843 - 1918 |
Nationality | American |
Place of birth | Rochester, New York, USA |
Date of birth | 06 May 1843 |
Place of death | Jackson, Michigan, USA |
Date of death | 01/05/1918 |
Occupation | geologist |
Research field | Sedimentology |
Geology |
Geomorphology |
Activity | Education: 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 category | Foreign Member |
Date of election | 28/02/1918 |
Age at election | 75 |
Proposer | Joseph 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 activity | Wollaston Medal 1900 |
Published works | RCN 8652 |
General context | Studied meteor craters in Arizona; lunar craters; and crustal movements around Lake Bonneville. |
Sources | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DAB; DSB |
Royal Society code | NA5103 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference number | Title | Date |
EC/1918/02 | Gilbert, Grove Karl: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
NLB/19/347 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor Joseph Reynolds Green, Fellow of the Royal Society | 18 August 1899 |
NLB/62/719 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William Whitehead] Watts, FRS | 12 April 1922 |
MC/33/172 | Letter from [William Whitehead] Watts, Hillside, Langley Park, Sutton, Surrey, to Professor [Arthur] Schuster, [Royal Society] | 15 December 1918 |