Name Francis Pettijohn Role Geologist | ||
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Died April 23, 1999, Glen Arm, Maryland, United States Awards Wollaston Medal, Penrose Medal Books Sand and sandstone, Paleocurrents and Basin Analysis, Atlas and Glossary of Primary S, Sedimentary Rocks, Memoirs of an unrepent | ||
Education University of Minnesota | ||
Francis John Pettijohn (June 20, 1904 – April 23, 1999) was an American geologist who served for many years on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University.
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Pettijohn received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 1923 based on a study of Precambrian sedimentology and structure of an area around Abram Lake, Ontario. In 1929 he obtained a position at the University of Chicago. He became a full professor there in 1949. In 1943 he published an important work on Archaean sedimentation. In 1952 he moved to Johns Hopkins University where he remained until retirement in 1973.
Honors and awards
He received the Penrose Medal from the Geological Society of America in 1975. Other awards include the Twenhofel Medal of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London and the Sorby Medal of the International Association of Sedimentologists. Francis J. Pettijohn medal from Society For Sedimentary Geology in 1992