“Stanley Robert Mitchell”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

词条

Stanley Robert Mitchell

释义

Early years
Career
Private life
Honours and awards
Publications
References

Stanley Robert Mitchell (12 February 1881 – 22 March 1963) was an Australian commercial metallurgist as well as an amateur mineralogist and ethnologist.

Early years

Mitchell was born in St Kilda, Victoria, the oldest of eight siblings. His father, James Mitchell, was a commercial traveller and amateur mineralogist. He was educated at Armadale State School. From 1898 he was employed as a metallurgist and industrial chemist in a Footscray smelting works.^[1]

Career

Mitchell studied in the evenings at the Working Men's College of Melbourne; he gained a certificate in geology in 1911 and subsequently worked for the Department of Metallurgical Geology and Mineralogy. He established his own businesses, first as a gold assayer, then as S. R. Mitchell & Co., which was a refiner of precious metals from the 1920s, then Mitchell's Abrasives in 1930 to manufacture sandpaper. He also worked as a consultant to mining ventures and was a member of Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a foundation member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.^[1]

Private life

In 1906 Mitchell married Beatrice Anna Pay, a music teacher, with whom he was to have two sons and two daughters. He was widowed in 1922 and married Ila Victoria Davies in 1924, with whom he had a son and from whom he was divorced in 1946. In 1946 he married Bessie Alice Annie Terry, who survived him. His three sons all joined the family business.^[1]

Mitchell accumulated major collections of rocks, minerals and Aboriginal artefacts and was heavily involved in the activities of field naturalists’ clubs. He wrote numerous articles and a book about his interests.^[1]

Honours and awards

Honorary Mineralogist, National Museum of Victoria (1931–1963)
Founder (1934) and President (1940, 1942-43) of the Anthropological Society of Victoria
President, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (1936–1937)
Trustee and Treasurer, National Museum of Victoria (1945–1954)
Honorary Ethnologist, National Museum of Victoria (1949–1963)
Australian Natural History Medallion (1955)

Publications

Mitchell, S.R. (1949). Stone-age Craftsmen. Stone tools and camping places of the Australian Aborgines. Tait: Melbourne.

References

1. ^¹²³{{cite web |url= http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mitchell-stanley-robert-11140 |title= Mitchell, Stanley Robert (1881–1963) |accessdate=2014-04-27 |work= Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 15 (MUP) |first=J.F. |last=Lovering |publisher= National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |year=2000 }}

{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Mitchell, Stanley Robert}}{{Australia-business-bio-stub}}{{Australia-scientist-stub}}

随便看

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。