Frank Dawson Adams

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Frank Dawson Adams (September 17, 1859 – December 26, 1942) was a Canadian geologist born in Montreal.

In 1889 he became a professor at McGill University, becoming the Logan Professor of Geology from 1892 to 1922. He also served as the Dean for the Faculty of Applied Science and then as Vice-Principal to the University. He was noted for several academic achievements during his career, first becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1896, a Fellow of the Royal Society (of Great Britain) in 1907, and awarded the Flavelle Medal, which is given for outstanding contributions to biological science, in 1937.

The Frank Dawson Adams Building at McGill University is named in his honour. A plaque in his honour was erected on the Redpath Museum on the McGill campus in 1950.

[edit] External links

• Frank Dawson Adams at The Canadian Encyclopedia

[edit] Further Reading

• Clark, Thomas. (1970). "Adams, Frank Dawson". Dictionary of Scientific Biography 1: 50-53. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.