| 词条 | Charles Cotton (geologist) |
| 释义 |
| name = Sir Charles Cotton | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|KBE|size=100%}} | image = | image_size = 250px | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|02|24|df=y}} | birth_place = Dunedin, New Zealand | death_date = {{Death date and age|1970|06|29|1885|02|24|df=y}} | death_place = Lower Hutt, New Zealand | field = Geomorphology Geology | work_institutions = Victoria University College | alma_mater = University of Otago | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = | influences = William Morris Davis[1] | influenced = Lester King[2] Colin McCahon | prizes = Victoria Medal (1951) | religion = | footnotes = | signature = }} Sir Charles Andrew Cotton {{post-nominals|country=NZL|KBE|size=85%}} (24 February 1885 – 29 June 1970) was a New Zealand geologist and geomorphologist, described as one of the leading scientists that New Zealand has produced. Early life and familyBorn in Dunedin, Cotton was educated at Christchurch Boys' High School, where he lost the sight in his left eye because of a schoolmate's prank. In 1908 Cotton graduated from the University of Otago with an MSc, with first-class honours in geology. Academic careerCotton was then director of the Coromandel School of Mines from 1908 to 1909, and geology lecturer at Victoria University College from 1909 to 1920, when he was appointed to the newly created chair of geology. He retired in 1953. In the 1959 Queen's Birthday Honours, Cotton was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[3] According to Cotton himself an important development to his scientific career was the introduction of air mail to New Zealand allowing letters to arrive or be received from Europe within two weeks.[4] Cotton was a leading New Zealand scientist, and became an international authority on geomorphology through the publication of his books and papers, the most notable of which include Geomorphology of New Zealand (1922), Landscape (1941), Geomorphology (1942), Climatic Accidents in Landscape Making (1942), Volcanoes as Landscape Forms (1944), The Earth Beneath (1945), Living on a Planet (1945), and New Zealand Geomorphology (1955)[5]. Cotton's work became the inspiration for much of Colin McCahon's landscape painting. LegacyCotton is considered to be one of the leading scientists New Zealand has yet produced.[6] Victoria University of Wellington has named a building to honour Cotton. The building on the Kelburn campus contains a low-rise block with science departments, a group of lecture theatres and laboratories and "Cotton Street", an enclosed concourse with shops and displays.[7] References1. ^{{cite book |last1=Chorley |first1=Richard J.|last2=Beckinsale |first2=Robert P.|last3=Dunn |first3=Antony J. |title=The History of the Study of Landforms |volume=Volume Two |url= |location= | origyear = 1973 | date=2005|publisher=Taylor & Francis e-Library |chapter= Chapter Twenty-Two|page=569 |isbn= }} {{Authority control}}{{Recipients of the Hector Memorial Medal}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Cotton, Charles}}2. ^{{Citation | last1 = Twidale | first1 = C.R.|author-link=Charles Rowland Twidale | title = King of the plains: Lester King's contributions to geomorphology | journal = Geomorphology | volume = 5 | issue = | year = 1992 | pages = 491–509 | url =}} 3. ^{{London Gazette |issue=41729 |date=13 June 1959 |page=3740 |supp=y }} 4. ^{{cite journal |last1=Twidale |first1=C.R. |author-link=Charles Rowland Twidale |date=2009 |title="Obscure" references: a cautionary tale |url=http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.971.318&rep=rep1&type=pdf |journal=Studia Geologica Salmanticensi |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=59–89 |doi= |access-date= }} 5. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=jVIjECjQMfEC&pg=PA295&dq=geomorphology+zealand+cotton&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWp--m-O3eAhXKWisKHa_bD7sQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=geomorphology%20zealand%20cotton&f=false|title=History of Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology|last=Grapes|first=R. H.|date=2008|publisher=Geological Society of London|year=|isbn=9781862392557|location=|pages=295|language=en}} 6. ^New Zealand Dictionary of Biography 7. ^{{cite web|title=Kelburn Campus Map|url=http://www.victoria.ac.nz/home/about/maps/publications/kelburn_map.pdf}} 11 : 1885 births|1970 deaths|New Zealand Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire|University of Otago alumni|Victoria University of Wellington faculty|People from Dunedin|New Zealand geologists|New Zealand geomorphologists|People educated at Christchurch Boys' High School|20th-century New Zealand scientists|Victoria Medal recipients |
| 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。