Frank Dawson Adams

Frank Dawson Adams ( born September 17, 1859 in Montreal, † December 26, 1942 ) was a Canadian geologist.

Adams went to school in Montreal and studied at McGill University in Geology John William Dawson and Bernard Harrington. In 1878 he received his degree in Applied Sciences and continued his studies at Yale University, where he studied French, German and mineralogy, petrology latter when George Wessel Hawes ( 1848-1882 ), a pupil of Karl Heinrich Rose bush. 1880 to 1889 he was with the Geological Survey of Canada as a chemist and petrologist, where he at Harry Rosenberg ( 1836-1914 ) also spent a year studying in Heidelberg, where he also received his doctorate in 1892. In 1884, he earned a master's degree at McGill University. From 1989 he was a lecturer and from 1892 he was Logan Professor of Geology at McGill University. 1905 to 1919 he was dean of Applied Sciences and in 1922 he retired. But he was still active as a geologist and created the first geological map of Ceylon. In 1913 he was president of the International Geological Congress in Toronto.

The learned Rosenberg in Heidelberg microscopic petrological techniques he used in Kanda, is recognized as the founder of modern techniques in the petrology of igneous and metamorphic rocks. He is best known for experimental work on the flow of metamorphic rocks at high pressure. His pioneering work in this area was later continued at Harvard and at the Carnegie Institution in Washington DC. He also wrote a book on the history of geology.

In 1939 he received the Wollaston medal. In 1918 he was president of the Geological Society of America. In 1896 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 1907 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1917 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A building of McGill University is named after him.