Frank Hawthorne
Frank Christopher Hawthorne CC FRSC (born 8 January 1946 in Bristol, England) is a Canadian mineralogist and crystallographer.
Frank Hawthorne | |
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| Born | Frank Christopher Hawthorne 8 January 1946 Bristol, England |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London McMaster University |
| Awards | Order of Canada Roebling Medal (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mineralogy and crystallography |
| Institutions | University of Manitoba |
Education
Hawthorne received a Bachelor of Science degree from Imperial College London in 1968 and an Associateship of the Royal School of Mines (ARSM). In 1973, he received a PhD from McMaster University.
Career
From 1973 to 1975, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Geological Science at the University of Manitoba. He was a research associate from 1975 to 1980 and University Research Fellow from 1980 to 1985.
In 1985, he was appointed an Associate Professor and in 1986 he was appointed a Professor of Crystallography and Mineralogy. He currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Crystallography and Mineralogy.
Hawthorne's early work focused on structural and crystal-chemical problems of amphiboles. He had used several experimental techniques, including X-ray and neutron diffraction, infrared spectroscopy, and Mössbauer spectroscopy. He summarised his results in a 300-page paper on amphiboles, for which he was awarded the Hawley Medal of the Mineralogical Association of Canada in 1983.
Hawthorne then turned his attention to a series of complex crystal-chemistry problems involving rock-forming minerals, such as staurolite, vesuvianite, pyroxenes, beryl, and tourmaline. He used a multi-technique approach and applied novel analytical and spectroscopic methods to solve these mineralogical problems. These results have been used to provide indication of the conditions prevailing during the progressive crystallisation of magmas.
Hawthorne's work on the energetic content of the chemical bonds in mineral structures has advanced solid-state chemistry and crystallography.
Honours
- Frankhawthorneite is named after him
- He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- 1983, awarded the Hawley Medal of the Mineralogical Association of Canada
- 1991, awarded the W.W. Hutchison Medal of the Geological Association of Canada
- 1991, awarded a Killam Fellowship by the Canada Council
- 1993, awarded the Willet G. Miller Medal of the Royal Society of Canada
- 1996, awarded the Geological Association of Canada's highest honour, the Logan Medal
- 1999, awarded the Past presidents' Medal of the Mineralogical Association of Canada
- 2001, appointed Canada Research Chair in Crystallography and Mineralogy
- 2001, listed by Sciencewatch as the most highly cited Mineralogist/Crystallographer for 1990–2000
- 2006, made an Officer of the Order of Canada
- 2006, elected Foreign Fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2007, listed by Thomson Scientific as the most highly cited Geoscientist in the world for the decade 1996–2007
- 2007, Elected Fellow of the Geochemical Society
- 2007, Elected Fellow of the European Association of Geochemistry
- 2008, Awarded the Killam Prize in Natural Sciences, Killam Trust and The Canada Council
- 2009, Awarded the IMA Medal of the International Mineralogical Association
- 2009, Awarded the Carnegie Medal by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
- 2010, Awarded the Bancroft Medal of the Royal Society of Canada
- 2013, Awarded the Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America
- 2015, Elected Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- 2015, Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America
- 2015, Elected Honorary Fellow of the Russian Mineralogical Society
- 2016, Elected Honorary Fellow of the Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia
- 2016, Special issue of the Canadian Mineralogist published to honour the career of Frank Hawthorne
- 2017, Awarded Fersman Medal by the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2018, Awarded Buerger Medal by the American Crystallographic Association
- 2018, Appointed Companion of the Order of Canada
Bibliography
Journal articles
- Hawthorne, Frank C. (January 1981). "Crystal chemistry of the amphiboles". Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry. 9A: 1–102.
- Hawthorne, F. C. (1 September 1983). "Graphical enumeration of polyhedral clusters". Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations of Crystallography. 39 (5): 724–736. doi:10.1107/S0108767383001452. ISSN 0108-7673.
- Hawthorne, Frank C. (May 1983). "The crystal chemistry of the amphiboles". The Canadian Mineralogist. 21 (2): 173–480.
- Burns, Peter C.; Grice, Joel D.; Hawthorne, Frank C. (1995). "Borate minerals. I. Polyhedral clusters and fundamental building blocks" (PDF). The Canadian Mineralogist. 33: 1131–1151. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016.
- Burns, Peter C.; Ewing, Rodney C.; Hawthorne, Frank C. (1997). "The crystal chemistry of hexavalent uranium: polyhedron geometries, bond-valence parameters, and polymerization of polyhedra" (PDF). The Canadian Mineralogist. 35: 1551–1570. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016.
- Hawthorne, Frank C.; Oberti, Roberta (October 2007). "Classification of the Amphiboles". Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry. 67 (1): 55–88. Bibcode:2007RvMG...67...55H. doi:10.2138/rmg.2007.67.2.
- Hawthorne, Frank C. (2012). "A bond-topological approach to theoretical mineralogy: crystal structure, chemical composition and chemical reactions". Physics and Chemistry of Minerals. 39 (10): 841–874. doi:10.1007/s00269-012-0538-4. ISSN 0342-1791.
- Hawthorne, F. C. (2014). "The structure hierarchy hypothesis". Mineralogical Magazine. 78 (4): 957–1027. doi:10.1180/minmag.2014.078.4.13. ISSN 0026-461X.
- Hawthorne, F. C. (1 April 2015). "Toward theoretical mineralogy: A bond-topological approach". American Mineralogist. 100 (4): 696–713. doi:10.2138/am-2015-5114. ISSN 0003-004X.
- Day, Maxwell Christopher; Hawthorne, Frank Christopher (1 May 2022). "Bond topology of chain, ribbon and tube silicates. Part I. Graph-theory generation of infinite one-dimensional arrangements of ( T O 4 ) n − tetrahedra". Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances. 78 (3): 212–233. doi:10.1107/S2053273322001747. ISSN 2053-2733.
Books
- Amphiboles : crystal chemistry, occurrence, and health issues. Frank C. Hawthorne, Mineralogical Society of America, Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. Mineralogical Society of America. 2007. ISBN 9780939950799. OCLC 176897672.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - Landmark papers : structure topology. F. C. Hawthorne. London: Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland. 2006. ISBN 0-903056-23-2. OCLC 191821912.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - Spectroscopic methods in mineralogy and geology. Frank C. Hawthorne, Mineralogical Society of America. Washington, D.C.: Mineralogical Society of America. 1988. ISBN 0-939950-22-7. OCLC 17967077.
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References
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