Alice Wilson
| Alice Wilson | |
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| Born | August 26, 1881 Cobourg, Ontario, Canada |
| 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.
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- 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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