| 词条 | Ethel Currie |
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| name = Ethel Currie | honorific_suffix = DSc FRSE FGS FGSG | image = | image_size = 166px | caption = | birth_name = Ethel Dobbie Currie | birth_date = {{birth date|1899|12|04|df=yes}} | birth_place = Glasgow, Scotland | death_date = {{death date and age|1963|03|24|1899|12|04|df=yes}} | death_place = Glasgow, Scotland, UK | residence = 81 Seymour Street (1901) | nationality = Scottish | ethnicity = | field = Geology | work_institutions = Hunterian Museum | alma_mater = University of Glasgow | known_for = palaeontology, being one of the first women to be made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | awards = Neill Prize Wollaston Fund }} Dr Ethel Dobbie Currie DSc FRSE FGS FGSG (4 December 1899-24 March 1963) was a distinguished Scottish geologist and one of the first women to be made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Life and careerEthel Dobbie Currie was born at 92 Seymour Street, Cathcart, Glasgow (moving to 81 Seymour Street soon after) on 4 December 1899 to Elizabeth Laughlan Allan and James Ferguson Currie. She was a pupil of Bellahouston Academy. She graduated with a BSc from University of Glasgow in 1920 and her PhD in 1923. From 1920 she was assistant to Dr William Smellie at the Hunterian Museum.[1] She was also awarded an honorary doctorate (DSc) in 1945. Currie's primary research interest was in palaeontology. Her first publication was a joint paper with Professor John Gregory on fossil sea-urchins. She led a study of Scottish carboniferous goniatites.[2] In 1945 she became the first woman to be awarded the Neill Prize by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 1949, she was one of the first women to be made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (along with Sheina Marshall).[2] Her proposers were Sir Edward Battersby Bailey, John Weir, Murray Macgregor, Sir Arthur Elijah Trueman, George W Tyrell, and Thomas Neville George.[3] Her contributions were acknowledged by the Geological Society of London and she was awarded its Wollaston Fund.[4][5] In 1952 she was elected the first female President of the Glasgow Geological Society, in succession to Thomas Neville George. She was succeeded in turn in 1955 by Neville George in a second term of office.[6] Professor John Gregory invited her to assist with the care and arrangement of the geological collections in the Hunterian Museum after her graduation. She worked as assistant curator of the Museum until she retired in September 1962. She died in Glasgow on 24 March 1963. [7]PublicationsEthel Currie published three books[8]
References1. ^The Life and Work of Prof J W Gregory FRS by Bernard E Leslie {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Currie, Ethel}}2. ^1 {{cite web|title=Leading the study of Scottish Carboniferous Goniatites|url=http://worldchanging.gla.ac.uk/article/?id=41|website=World Changing|publisher=University of Glasgow|accessdate=24 June 2014}} 3. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |title=Former fellow list|website=www.royalsoced.org.uk}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=Ethel Dobbie Currie |work=The University of Glasgow story|publisher=University of Glasgow |url=http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH1310&type=P|accessdate=3 December 2013}} 5. ^{{cite web|first=Neil |last=Clarke |title=Ethel Dobbie Currie|url=http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/neil/Currie/fam004.html|accessdate=3 December 2013}} 6. ^https://www.geologyglasgow.org.uk/about_us/society-presidents/ 7. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH1310&type=P|title=University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of Ethel Dobbie Currie|website=www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk|access-date=2018-06-17}} 8. ^{{cite web|title=Books by Ethel Currie|url=https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-author=Ethel%20Dobbie%20Currie&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AEthel%20Dobbie%20Currie|accessdate=3 December 2013}} 12 : 1899 births|1963 deaths|Scottish women geologists|Scottish palaeontologists|Women paleontologists|Scottish women scientists|People from Cathcart|Alumni of the University of Glasgow|Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|Fellows of the Geological Society of London|20th-century women scientists|Curators |
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