Arthur Holmes
Affiliations: | 1925-1943 | University of Durham, Durham, England, United Kingdom | |
| 1943-1956 | Geology | University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom |
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GeochronologyWebsite:
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"Arthur Holmes"Bio:
(1890 - 1965)
http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/blog/2015/09/18/arthur-holmes-the-most-famous-british-geologist-you-have-never-heard-of/
http://www.jstor.org/stable/93200
https://archive.org/stream/ageofearth00holmuoft#page/n11/mode/2up
Parents
Sign in to add mentor| Robert John Strutt | grad student | 1913 | Imperial College London | |
| (The age of the earth) | ||||
| William Whitehead Watts | grad student | 1913 | Imperial College London (Physics Tree) | |
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Harold Jeffreys | grad student | 1917-1922 | Meteorological Office London (MathTree) |
| John McDougall Christie | grad student | 1956 | Edinburgh |
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| Holmes A. (1954) The Oldest Dated Minerals of the Rhodesian Shield Nature. 173: 612-614 |
| Holmes A. (1952) The Potash Ankaratrite-Meleleucocitite Lavas of Nabagando and Mbuga Craters, south-west Uganda Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society. 15: 187-213 |
| Holmes A. (1949) Lead isotopes and the age of the earth. Nature. 163: 453-456 |
| Holmes A. (1948) The oldest known minerals and rocks Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society. 14: 176-194 |
| Holmes A. (1947) A Revised Estimate of the Age of the Earth Nature. 159: 127-128 |
| Combe AD, Holmes A. (1947) XIV.—The Kalsilite-bearing Lavas of Kabirenge and Lyakauli, South-West Uganda Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 61: 359-379 |
| Holmes A. (1945) Natural History of Granite Nature. 155: 412-415 |
| Holmes A. (1944) The Floor of the Ocean Nature. 153: 389-389 |
| Holmes A. (1942) A Heteromorph of Venanzite Geological Magazine. 79: 225-232 |
| Urry WD, Holmes A. (1941) Age Determination of Carboniferous Basic Rocks of Shropshire and Colonsay Geological Magazine. 78: 45-61 |