John Wesley Judd CB FRS FGS (18 February 1840 – 3 March 1916) was a British geologist.
John Wesley Judd | |
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| Born | 18 February 1840 Portsmouth |
| Died | 3 March 1916 (aged 76) |
| Alma mater | Royal School of Mines |
| Spouse | Jeannie Frances Jeyes |
| Awards | Wollaston Medal (1891) Companion of the Order of the Bath (1895) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | British Geological Survey Imperial College Royal College of Science |
Biography
editHe was born in Portsmouth the son of George and Jannette Judd. At the age of 8, he moved to London, and went to school in Camberwell.[1] After leaving school, Judd became a school-teacher in Horncastle, Lincolnshire until 1863, when he became a student at the Royal School of Mines. From 1867 - 1870, Judd worked for the Geological Survey of England and Wales, mapping Rutland, before joining the Education Department, under Matthew Arnold, as an Inspector of Schools in 1871.[2] In his spare time, Judd continued his geological studies in Scotland, and later in the volcanic districts of Italy. He returned to Imperial College in 1876, succeeding Sir Andrew Ramsey as Professor of Geology.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1877, having been nominated by Charles Darwin, George Julius Poulett Scrope, Nevil Maskelyne and Edward Hull, among others.[3] He was President of the Geological Society between 1886 and 1888 and awarded their Wollaston Medal in 1891. He was later Dean of the Royal College of Science,[4] and Vice-President of the Royal Society from 1902 to 1904.[5] He retired from Imperial College in 1905.
Notable pupils of his include Edgeworth David, William Fraser Hume and Frederick Chapman.
He married in 1878 Jeannie Frances, daughter of John Jeyes. They had a son and a daughter, Hilda, who became a biochemist.[6]
Works
edit- Judd, John Wesley (1881). Volcanoes: what they are and what they teach. New York: Appleton.
- Judd, John Wesley (1873). The Secondary Rocks of Scotland. First Paper. London: Geological Society.
- Judd, John Wesley (1874). The Secondary Rocks of Scotland. Second Paper. On the Ancient Volcanoes of the Highlands and the Relations of their Products to the Mesozoic Strata (PDF). London: Geological Society.
- Judd, John Wesley (1878). The Secondary Rocks of Scotland. Third Paper. The Strata of the Western Coast and Islands. London: Geological Society.
References
edit- ^ Bonney, T. G. (1 March 1916). "Prof. J. W. Judd, C.B., F.R.S." Nature. 97 (2419): 37–38. doi:10.1038/097037a0. S2CID 2886870.
- ^ Cole, Grenville A. J. (11 January 1918). "In Memoriam: John Wesley Judd". Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society. 19 (4): 327–329. doi:10.1144/pygs.19.4.327.
- ^ "Search Results". catalogues.royalsociety.org.
- ^ "Royal College of Science". The Times. No. 36889. London. 3 October 1902. p. 9.
- ^ "Search Results". catalogues.royalsociety.org.
- ^ Barrett, Anne (24 February 2017). Women At Imperial College; Past, Present And Future. World Scientific. pp. 233–4. ISBN 978-1-78634-264-5.
External links
edit- JUDD, Professor John Wesley (1840-1916) at Archives in London and the M25 area.
- Works by John Wesley Judd at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about John Wesley Judd at the Internet Archive
- John Wesley Judd C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. Biography, Pioneers of the British Geological Survey