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Charles Findlay Davidson was born on 16 July, 1911. Discover Charles Findlay Davidson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 112 years old?
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Charles Findlay Davidson Height, Weight & Measurements
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Charles Findlay Davidson Net Worth
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He died of a heart attack at his home, Gowan Park on the outskirts of Cupar in Fife on 1 November 1967. He was posthumously awarded the Neill Prize by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
In 1955 he was appointed Professor of Geology at St Andrews University. He was awarded the Lyell Medal by the Geological Society of London in 1965 and given honorary membership of the Geological Society of America in 1966.
He was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1953 New Years Honours List.
In the Second World War he was the official geological advisor to British Intelligence. He was appointed Chief Geologist to the government in 1944 and was tasked with sourcing Uranium for the British atomic aims. From 1946 to 1954 he was entitled Chief Geologist of the UK’s Atomic Energy Division. As a result, he was discoverer of major uranium deposits in Canada (assisted by local geologist, Franc Joubin). During this period he was one of the world’s most travelled persons, covering an estimated 50,000 miles per annum. He was jointly responsible for identifying Witwatersrand in South Africa as one of the world’s primary sources of Uranium. Whilst in the UK he was based at the Harwell Laboratory.
In 1938 he married Helen McLean Wallace. They had four sons.
In 1935 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Sir John S Flett, A.D.Peacock, John Pringle, James Alexander Richey and Douglas Alexander Allan. He served as their vice president from 1963 to 1966.
In 1934 he got a post as Assistant Curator within the Geology Section of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington.
Charles Findlay Davidson OBE FRSE FGS MIMM (16 July 1911 - 1 November 1967) was a Scottish geologist. He served as Vice President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was Assistant Curator to the Museum of Practical Geology in London and Chief Geologist of the British Geological Survey.
He was born in Monifieth in northern Scotland on 16 July 1911, the son of John Davidson. His early education was at Morgan Academy in Dundee. He studied Geology and Mineralogy at the University of St Andrews, graduating with a first-class honours BSc in 1933. The university later awarded him an honorary doctorate (DSc) in 1942.
