Reginald Aldworth Daly
Reginald Aldworth Daly ( born March 18, 1871 in Napanee, Ontario, † September 19, 1957 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a Canadian geologist. He was from 1912 to 1942 professor at Harvard University, having previously worked as a geologist for kartierender the Canadian International Boundary Commission.
He examined the rocks along a more than 600 -kilometer strip at the 49th parallel. From his findings during this work, he formulated a theory of igneous rocks, which he published in his work Igneous Rocks and Their Origin 1914. He was an early supporter of Alfred Wegener and Arthur Holmes ' continental drift theory, about which he published a book (out mobile earth). Daly published in 1946, the collision theory of the origin of the moon.
Daly was in 1935 awarded the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America, 1942, the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London and in 1946 with the William Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union. Craters on Mars and the moon ( lunar crater Daly ) are named after him, and his house in Cambridge ( the Reginald A. Daly House) is now Grade II listed as a National Historic Landmark.