Cecil Edgar Tilley

Cecil Edgar Tilley
President of the Geological Society of London (en) 1949 - 1950 ← Herbert Harold Read (en) - Owen Thomas Jones (en) →
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	Adelaide, 14 Mayu 1894
ƙasa	Asturaliya Birtaniya
Mutuwa	Cambridge (mul) , 24 ga Janairu, 1973
Karatu
Makaranta	University of Adelaide (en) University of Sydney (en)
Sana'a
Sana'a	mineralogist (en) da university teacher (en)
Employers	University of Cambridge (en)
Kyaututtuka	gani Fellow of the Royal Society Roebling Medal  (1954) Royal Medal  (1967) Bigsby Medal  (1937) Wollaston Medal  (1960) Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
Mamba	The Royal Society (mul) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (en) National Academy of Sciences (en)

Cecil Edgar Tilley FRS, Hon FRSE, PGS (14 ga Mayu 1894 - 24 ga Janairu 1973) masanin ilimin petrologist ne kuma masanin ilimin ƙasa na Australiya-Birtaniya.

Rayuwa

An haife shi a Unley, Adelaide, ƙaramin ɗan John Thomas Edward Tilley, injiniyan farar hula daga Landan, da matarsa da aka haifa a Kudancin Australia, Catherine Jane Nicholas.

Cecil ta yi karatu a Makarantar Sakandare ta Adelaide, sannan ta yi karatun ilmin sunadarai da ilimin ƙasa a ƙarƙashin William Rowan Browne a Jami'ar Adelaide, da Jami'ar Sydney, ta kammala a 1915. A shekara ta 1916, a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na farko, ya tafi Kudancin Queensferry kusa da Edinburgh a Scotland don yin aiki a matsayin likitan Sashen Sayar da Fashewa. Ya koma Ostiraliya a watan Disamba na shekara ta 1918.

Ya lashe kyautar baje kolin shekara ta 1851 a Jami'ar Cambridge a 1919, inda ya yi karatun ilimin petrology a karkashin Alfred Harker, kuma ya kammala digirinsa na PhD a 1922. Daga 1923 ya yi aiki a Jami'ar Cambridge, da farko a matsayin mai nunawa a fannin ilimin petrology, sannan kuma malami a fannin kimiyyar petrology a 1929. A shekara ta 1931, bayan ritaya na Harker, an nada shi a matsayin Farfesa na farko na Mineralogy da Petrology. Yawancin sauran rayuwarsa ya kasance a Ingila, kodayake ya shafe 1938-9 a Ostiraliya kuma ya ziyarci a kai a kai bayan Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu.

A cikin 1929, yayin da yake binciken wani dutsen wuta a Scawt Hill, kusa da Larne, Arewacin Ireland don Mineralogical Magazine ya gano kuma ya ba da sunan sabbin ma'adanai larnite da scawtite.

A shekara ta 1938 an zabe shi Fellow na Royal Society na London kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin Mataimakin Shugaban su 1949/50. Ya lashe lambar yabo ta Royal a shekarar 1967.

Daga 1948 zuwa 1951 ya kasance Shugaban Mineralogical Society of Great Britain . Ya kasance Shugaban Geological Society 1949/50. An zabe shi a matsayin mai girmamawa na Royal Society na Edinburgh a shekara ta 1957.

Ya mutu a gida a Cambridge a ranar 24 ga Janairun 1973 yana da shekaru 78, kuma an ƙone jikinsa.

Iyali

A shekara ta 1928 ya auri Irene Doris Marshall a Ikilisiyar Triniti Mai Tsarki, Kingsway, London.