William Whitehead Watts

William Whitehead Watts ( born June 7, 1860 in Broseley, Shropshire, † 30 July 1947) was a British geologist.

Watts attended the Denstone College and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he was a 1888-1894 Fellow, made in 1882 and his bachelor's degree in 1885 for his Masters degree. 1882 to 1891 he was Lecturer in Extension Cambridge and taught at Oxford in 1888. After some with Charles Lapworth made ​​geological field work in Shropshire, he was from 1891 when the Geological Survey and mapped for this in Ireland and the Charnwood Forest. From 1897 he was professor at Birmingham University and in 1906 at Imperial College. 1910 to 1912 he was president of the Geological Society of London, after he had previously from 1898 through its secretary.

In 1904 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1915 he received the Murchison Medal and 1927 the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London. In 1909 he received a Sc. D. Cambridge. In 1935 he became an honorary member of the Geological Association.

Writings

  • Geology for Beginners 1898
  • Shropshire, the geography of the county, Shrewsbury 1919 Online
  • Petrographic notes to George William Lamplugh Geology of the Isle of Man, London 1903
  • Alexander McHenry: Guide to the collections of rocks and fossils BELONGING to the Geological Survey of Ireland, Museum of Science and Art, Dublin 1895
  • The geological work of Charles Lapworth, Birmingham 1921, Online
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