Robert Jameson
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Naixement | 11 juliol 1774 ![]() Leith (Escòcia) ![]() | ||||
Mort | 19 abril 1854 ![]() Edimburg (Escòcia) ![]() | ||||
Sepultura | Cementiri de Warriston ![]() | ||||
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Formació | Universitat d'Edimburg Leith Academy ![]() | ||||
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Camp de treball | Mineralogia i geòleg ![]() | ||||
Ocupació | ornitòleg, professor d'universitat, geòleg ![]() | ||||
Ocupador | Universitat d'Edimburg ![]() | ||||
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Professors | Abraham Gottlob Werner ![]() | ||||
Obra | |||||
Estudiant doctoral | Hugh Falconer ![]() | ||||
Abrev. zoologia | Jameson ![]() | ||||
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Professor Robert Jameson, FRS FRSE (11 de juliol de 1774 – 19 d'abril de 1854) va ser un naturalista i mineralòleg escocès. Va ser Regius Professor a la Universitat d'Edinburgh durant 50 anys, Jameson va ser professor de geologia de Charles Darwin.
Biografia
Jameson nasqué a Leith.[1] A la Universitat d'Edimburg estudià medicina, botànica química i història natural.
Cap a 1793, Jameson se centrà en la geologia i la mineralogia.
Publicacions
- (1798) The Mineralogy of the Shetland Islands and of Arran.
- (1800) Mineralogy of the Scottish Isles.
- (1804) System of Mineralogy.
- (1805) Mineralogical Description of Scotland, vol. i, part I.
- (1809) Elements of Geognosy.
- (1813) Mineralogical Travels through the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland Islands.
- (1821) Manual of Mineralogy.
- With James Wilson and Hugh Murray, (1830) Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: with illustrations of the geology, mineralogy, and zoology. With a map; plans of the routes of Park, and of Denham and Clapperton; several engravings. First published in the Edinburgh Cabinet Library, 1830.
Referències
- ↑ «Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002». Royal Society of Edinburgh. Arxivat de l'original el 4 d’octubre 2006. [Consulta: 19 setembre 2010].
- Dictionary of Scientific Biography, volume II, (New York, Scribner's, 1981)
- Encyclopædia Britannica, vol 12, (London, William Benton, 1964)
- Birse, Ronald M, Science at the University of Edinburgh 1583–1993, (Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, 1994)
- Devlin-Thorp, Sheila, Scotland's Cultural Heritage, (Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, 1981)
- Gillispie, Charles Clouston (ed.), Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol vii, (New York, Scribner's, 1972)
- Grant, Alexander, The Story of the University of Edinburgh During its First 300 Years, vol.2, (London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1884)
- Seymour Fort, G. (1918) Dr Jameson. London: Hurst and Blackett, Ltd., Paternoster House, E.C. – Biography of Sir Leander Starr Jameson, which notes that Starr's '...chief Gamaliel, however, was a Professor Grant, a man of advanced age, who had been a pupil of his great-uncle, the Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh.' (p. 53).
Aquest article incorpora text d'una publicació que es troba actualment al domini públic: «Jameson, Robert (1774-1854)». A: Sidney Lee. Dictionary of National Biography. 29. Londres: Smith, Elder & Co, 1892.
- See University of Edinburgh Library Special Collections Division: Robert Jameson's Papers; Sources of Biographical History are derived from the University of Edinburgh webpages [1] Arxivat 2005-11-09 a Wayback Machine..
Enllaços externs
- Obres de Robert Jameson al Projecte Gutenberg.
- Robert Jameson (1826) "Observations on the nature and importance of geology", Edinburgh New Philosophica Journal, vol. 1, p. 293-302. - fully digitized facsimile from Linda Hall Library