Alice Wilson
Alice Wilson | |
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Born | Cobourg, Ontario, Canada |
August 26, 1881
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
Citizenship | Canadian |
Fields | Geologist |
Alice Evelyn Wilson, M.B.E., F.R.S.C. (August 26, 1881 – April 15, 1964) was a Canadian geologist and paleontologist. She was the first female Canadian geologist.[1] She conducted field studies on rocks and fossils in the Ottawa region between 1913 and 1963.
She became the first female Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1937. In 1935, she was a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
The Royal Society of Canada established the Alice Wilson awards for emerging women scholars in 1991. [2]
Selected Publications
Wilson, Alice E. (1946). Geology of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence lowland, Ontario and Quebec. Ottawa: E. Cloutier.
Wilson, Alice E. (1948). Miscellaneous classes of fossils: Ottawa formation, Ottawa-St. Lawrence Valley. Ottawa: E. Cloutier.
Wilson, Alice E. (1951). Gastropoda and Conularida of the Ottawa formation of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence lowland. Ottawa: E. Cloutier.
References
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Wikisource has original works written by or about: Alice Wilson |
- Alice Wilson at The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Royal Society of Canada's biography
- Natural Resources Canada biography at the Wayback Machine (archived July 13, 2007)
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- 1881 births
- 1964 deaths
- Canadian biologists
- Canadian female geologists
- Canadian paleontologists
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Women paleontologists
- People from Cobourg
- Canadian women scientists
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