Doug Coombs (geologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Doug Coombs (geologist)

geology department, University of Otago

Date of Birth: 23-Nov-1924

Place of Birth: Dunedin, Otago Region, New Zealand

Date of Death: 23-Dec-2016

Profession: geologist, researcher, academic, cricketer

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Doug Coombs (geologist)

  • Douglas Saxon Coombs (23 November 1924 – 23 December 2016) was a New Zealand mineralogist and petrologist. Born in Dunedin in 1924 and educated at King's High School, Coombs attended the University of Otago, graduating with an MSc with first-class honours in 1948.
  • He then studied at the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded a PhD in 1952. First appointed an assistant lecturer in geology at Otago in 1947, Coombs became a professor in 1956.
  • He retired in 1989 and was granted the title of professor emeritus.Coombs was noted for his studies of the rocks of the southern South Island of New Zealand.
  • The mineral species coombsite, K(Mn2+, Fe2+, Mg)13(Si, Al)18O42(OH)14, is named for him.He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1962, and in 1969 he won the society's Hector Medal, at that time New Zealand's highest science prize.
  • He received the Mineralogical Society of America Award in 1963.
  • In the 2002 New Year Honours, Coombs was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to mineralogy.A right-hand batsman and leg-break bowler, Coombs played cricket for Otago in the 1942–43 season.Coombs died in Dunedin on 23 December 2016.

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