Robert Charles Wallace

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Timpledon, Miriam T.; Marseken, Susan F.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Charles Wallace, CMG, BA, BSc, MSc, PhD, FRSC (June 15, 1881 - January 29, 1955) was a Scots-Canadian geologist, educator, and administrator who served as president of the University of Alberta (1928-1936), the principal of Queen's University (1936-1951), and the head of the Arctic Institute of North America (1951-1955). Robert Charles Wallace was born on June 15, 1881 in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. He completed his secondary education at the Kirkwall Grammar School in Orkney funded by a county scholarship. He went on to earn a B.A. from the University of Edinburgh in 1901 and a B.Sc. in geology and mathematics from the same institution in 1907, during which time he received Exhibition Scholarship. Wallace left for Germany to pursue graduate studies in geology, obtaining an M.Sc. from the University of Göttingen. He returned to Scotland to finish his graduate work, earning his Ph.D. from Edinburgh in 1912. Later that year, Wallace married Elizabeth Harcus Smith (another Orcadian). She later became the founder and first president of the Faculty Women's Club at Queen's University.

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• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786131161469
• ISBN-10: 6131161461
• Artikelnr.: 29967131