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Ursula Marvin
American geologist, mineralogist and historian of science / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ursula Bailey Marvin (August 20, 1921 – February 12, 2018)[1][2] was an American planetary geologist and author who worked for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.[3]
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Born | Ursula Bailey (1921-08-20)August 20, 1921 Bradford, Vermont, U.S. |
Died | February 12, 2018(2018-02-12) (aged 96) Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Education | Tufts University, Harvard University-Radcliffe |
Known for | Continental Drift: Evolution of a Concept |
Spouse | Thomas Crockett Marvin |
Awards | Lifetime Achievement Award from Women in Science and Engineering |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Planetary geology |
Institutions | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
She won the 1997 Women in Science and Engineering Lifetime Achievement Award.[4] In 1986, the Geological Society of America awarded her their History of Geology Award. She also won the 2005 Sue Tyler Friedman Medal,[5] and Antarctica's Marvin Nunatak is named in her honor. In 2012, the Meteoritical Society awarded her the Service Award[6][7] in part for her work recording the oral history of meteoriticists.[8][9] Asteroid (4309) Marvin is named in her honour, as is Marvin Crater on the Moon, located near the Lunar south pole.[10][11]