Francis John Turner

Francis John Turner ( born April 10, 1904 in Auckland, New Zealand, † December 21, 1985 in Berkeley, California ) was a New Zealand geologist and petrologist. He was professor of the Department of Geology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Early years

Francis John Turner was born on April 10, 1904 as the son of Mr and Mrs Gertrude King Come Reid, daughter of a leading Methodist pastor in Auckland, and her husband Joseph Hurst Turner, a teacher of Latin at the Auckland Grammar School, Auckland. Turner's father died in 1913, leaving the family with four sons back into poverty. His mother put a high value on education, so he attended the school where his father was formerly a teacher, in 1917 and received support through a scholarship. From 1921 on, he visited the Auckland University College, where he received several awards, including the Senior Solarship in geology and the Sir Julius von Haast Prize of the University. In 1925 he completed his studies with a Master of Science. During his studies he worked until 1926 for New Zealand Geological Survey.

University of Otago

In 1926 he became a lecturer at the Geology Department of the University of Otago in Dunedin, where he worked with Professor William Noel Benson. It was Benson, Turner for occurring in New Zealand metamorphic rock was interested and great influence on Turner's career in the early years. Turner was interested in from now on for the almost unexplored western part of the South Island of New Zealand. He traveled on foot, on horseback or by boat, collected rocks, documented it and working on his Doctor of Science degree, which he earned in 1934. With the award of the Fellowship in 1938 Turner was accepted as a member of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

On August 19, 1930 married Turner in Auckland Esmé Rena Bentham, a teacher of the Otago Girls' High School, from Dunedin, which brought a daughter into the marriage.

United States

In 1938, Turner was given the Sterling Fellowship at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut awarded. The recording made ​​it possible for him to travel to the U.S. and a year to work at the university. After this year, he went back to New Zealand and continued working as a lecturer at the University of Otago in Dunedin. In 1945, Turner applied to the position of Director of the New Zealand Geological Survey. After he received a refusal, he took in 1946 the offer of the University of California to work as an adjunct professor at the Geological Faculty. Two years later he was appointed full professor, a position which he held until his retirement in 1971.

1948 won Turner with his publication Mineralogical and Structural Evolution of Metamorphic Rocks worldwide attention and recognition in the art world in 1953 got the citizenship of the United States awarded and took over from 1954 to 1959 who presided at the at the Department of Geology of the University. Turner sat in diverse bodies of the University and earned great recognition, not only in his professional colleagues around the world, but also in the student body.

In 1971 Turner retired. He died after a long illness on December 21, 1985 in Berkeley, leaving behind his wife and his daughter Gillian, married as James McKercher.

Awards

Memberships

Works

• Geological Society of America (ed.): Mineralogical and Structural Evolution of Metamorphic Rocks. Boulder 1948.
• McGraw -Hill ( ed.): Metamorphic petrology; mineralogical and field aspects. In 1968.
• McGraw -Hill ( ed.): Metamorphic Petrology: Mineralogical, Field, and Tectonic Aspects. 1980, ISBN 0070655014 ( 2nd Edition ).

Co - publications

• FJ Turner, John Verhoogen, McGraw -Hill ( ed.): Metamorphic Petrology and Igenous. In 1951. (New edition with Ian S. E. Carmichael 1974)
• FJ Turner, Charles M. Gilbert, Howel Williams, WH Freeman and Co. ( Eds.): Petrography: An Introduction to the Study of Rocks in Thin Sections (Mode of Origin of Igneous Metamorphic Rocks and Sedimentary Rocks Are Formed and How ). In 1954.
• FJ Turner, Wilson G. Johnston, San Bernardino County Museum (ed.): Overland, California to Mexico, post 1783, and, Petroglyph Field Work. Vol XXXI No. 1 & 2, 1 January 1983.