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Harold Williams (geologist)

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Memorial Fellowship and the first scientist of any kind to hold this award for four full years. He has over 250 publications to his credit and for several years in the past three decades has been the most cited Canadian geoscientist in the world.
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World Heritage Site recognition under his advocacy. Williams is perhaps best known for producing the world's first tectonic lithofacies map and the first geological map of the entire
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belts, Williams advanced the theory of colliding super-continents in the 1960s and 1970s by helping to transform the notion of
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A petrographic study of the Metamorphic rocks of the Chisel lake area, northern Manitoba
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Professor (1990). He was the first to win both the Past President’s Medal and the
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Williams was among the first to describe the evidence for the existence of the
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and outstanding scientist. He left the GSC in 1968 and joined the faculty at
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by its Academy of Science. First winner of the R.J.W. Douglas Medal of the
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at age 38, a very rare accolade, and 15 years later was awarded the
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degree (1958) on a Dominion Command scholarship. He earned a
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Academic staff of the Memorial University of Newfoundland
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An expert on the evolution and tectonic development of 530: 528: 522:", Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, October 6, 2010. 348:, he was also the first geoscientist to be awarded an 202: 184: 174: 164: 129: 115: 105: 97: 74: 49: 28: 668:People from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador 495:, Memorial University of Newfoundland (2005–2010) 489:, Memorial University of Newfoundland (1990–1995) 402:, Memorial University of Newfoundland (1956,1957) 368:of western Newfoundland, which has qualified for 8: 396:, Memorial University of Newfoundland (1956) 19:For other people named Harold Williams, see 673:Memorial University of Newfoundland alumni 25: 520:Remembering the late, great Hank Williams 442:Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists 346:Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists 511: 429:Izaak-Walton-Killam Research Fellowship 280:earning a diploma in Engineering and a 663:Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada 658:Geological Survey of Canada personnel 501:, Canadian Mining Hall of Fame (2017) 7: 314:Memorial University of Newfoundland 278:Memorial University of Newfoundland 180:Memorial University of Newfoundland 109:Memorial University of Newfoundland 14: 468:Geological Association of Canada 458:, Royal Society of Canada (1987) 422:Geological Association of Canada 360:, the predecessor of the modern 326:Geological Association of Canada 21:Harold Williams (disambiguation) 240:and the foremost expert on the 236:in the history of Newfoundland 133:Governor General's Medal (1956) 563:. 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Index

Harold Williams (disambiguation)
MSc
PhD
FRSC
St. John's
Newfoundland
St. John's
Newfoundland and Labrador
Tectonics
Appalachian Mountains
Past President's Medal
Douglas Medal
Miller Medal
Logan Medal
Geology
Thesis
A petrographic study of the Metamorphic rocks of the Chisel lake area, northern Manitoba
Doctoral advisor
J. Tuzo Wilson
MSc
PhD
FRSC
geologists
geology
Appalachian Mountains
North America
mountain
continental drift
plate tectonics
St. John's

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