| 词条 | Sydney Mary Thompson |
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|name = Sydney Mary Thompson |image = Sydney Mary Thompson.jpg |image_size = 240px |birth_name = |birth_date = 1847 |birth_place = Whitehouse, County Antrim, Ireland |death_date = {{death date and age|1923|7|16|1847|df=y}} |death_place = Llandudno, Wales |nationality = Irish |other_names = Madame Christen |spouse = Rodolphe Christen (m. 1900) |known_for = Geology, botany, art }}Sydney Mary Thompson (also known as Madame Christen) (1847 – 16 July 1923) was an Irish geologist, botanist and artist.[1] Background and family lifeThompson was born in Whitehouse, County Antrim, the daughter of James Thompson, a Belfast linen merchant.[2] Her uncle was the naturalist William Thompson. She described her childhood as "amphibious"; her family home was at Macedon Point and she frequently explored the coastline with her brother in a small boat.[3] She spent three years in Dresden, Germany, then studied art at the Belfast Government School of Art, beginning in 1870, and later in London.[3] In 1900, she married Swiss artist Rodolphe Christen. The couple later moved to Scotland.[3] GeologyAn active member of the Belfast Naturalists' Club, Thompson organised lectures and practicals, showing a particular interest in stratigraphy and petrography. Her original fieldwork mostly concerned sources of material in the glacial deposits of northern Ireland.[3] She was a friend and collaborator of northern Irish geologist Mary Andrews, and together they worked on glacial erratics,[4] collecting samples, mapping and naming erratics with the aim of finding out the direction of ice flow in Ulster. As the secretary of the Belfast Field Club, her reports were published in the club's Proceedings.[5] In 1894, Thompson was elected to the Glacialists' Association.[6] Some time between 1907 and 1910, Thompson discovered a piece of Ailsa Craig microgranite at Moys, near Limavady, Co. Londonderry. The granite erratic showed the westernmost extent of the Irish Sea Glacier, as it had been carried south by the glacier from Scotland and its incorporation into glacial sediments allowed the route of the glacier to be mapped. Thompson's discovery placed the western limit of the glacier {{convert|20|mi}} further west than its previous designation.[3] ArtThompson won many prizes for her art,[7] and was a member of the Belfast Ramblers' Sketching Club and the Belfast Art Society, of which she became patron in 1921.[3] Bibliography
References1. ^{{cite journal|last=G. A. J. C.|title=Madame Christen (Sydney Mary Thompson)|journal=Geological Magazine|date=October 1923|volume=60|issue=10|page=478|doi=10.1017/S0016756800088415|url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=4884544}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Thompson, Sydney Mary}}2. ^{{cite web|title=Great Irish Geoscientists|url=http://www.geoschol.com/more/Great_Irish_Geoscientists_2009.pdf|accessdate=19 October 2012}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite book|last=Creese|first=Mary R. S.|chapter=Ireland: Mosses, Mollusks, and Migrating Boulders|title=Ladies in the Laboratory 2|year=2004|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham, Md. [u.a.]|isbn=978-0-8108-4979-2|pages=49–51|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RhNl22fb5xIC&lpg=PA49&ots=PXpmv9WrJj&dq=%22Sydney%20Mary%20Thompson%22&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=false|author2=Creese, Thomas M. }} 4. ^{{cite journal|journal=ES2K Magazine|year=2005/2006|issue=12|pages=2–3|url=http://www.habitas.org.uk/es2k/newsletter/Earth%20Science%202000%20Issue%2012.pdf|title=Chairman's Corner|accessdate=19 October 2012|last=Doughty|first=Philip|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315145541/http://www.habitas.org.uk/es2k/newsletter/Earth%20Science%202000%20Issue%2012.pdf|archivedate=15 March 2012|df=}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=Botanical Resources|url=http://www.botanicgardens.ie/herb/books/inatod.htm|publisher=National Botanic Gardens Glasnevin|accessdate=19 October 2012}} 6. ^{{cite web|last=Jackson|first=Patrick N. Wyse|title=Great Irish Geoscientists|url=http://www.geoschol.com/more/Great_Irish_Geoscientists_2009.pdf|publisher=Geological Survey of Ireland|pages=14–16|format=PDF|date=2009}} 7. ^{{cite web|last=Newmann|first=Kate|title=Sydney Mary Thompson|url=http://www.ulsterbiography.co.uk/|publisher=Ulster Biography|accessdate=19 October 2012}} 9 : 1847 births|1923 deaths|19th-century Irish painters|20th-century Irish painters|Irish botanists|Irish women geologists|People from Belfast|People from County Antrim|People from Northern Ireland |
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