Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff

Prof Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff FRSE FGS (1892–1968) was a 20th-century Russian and British geologist and petrologist who won the Geological Society's Lyell Medal in 1966.

Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff
Сергей Иванович Томкеев
Born1892.10.20
Vilna
Died1968.10.27 (76)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
CitizenshipRussian Empire, UKGB
Alma materPetrograd Polytechnic Institute
Known forPetrology, History of Geology
AwardsLyell Medal (1966)
Scientific career
FieldsGeology
InstitutionsAnderson College
Doctoral advisorF. Levinson-Lessing

Life

Tomkeieff was born on 20 October 1892 in Vilna, in the Russian Empire, and studied petrology in Petrograd Polytechnic Institute. Tomkeieff came to Britain either during or just after the First World War, and began lecturing in geology at Anderson College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1920.

In 1948 Tomkeieff was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, proposed by Arthur Holmes, James Ernest Richey, Sir Edward Battersby Bailey, Heslop Harrison, George Walter Tyrrell, John Weir, and H. B. Donald.[1]

In 1957 Tomkeieff became professor of petrology at the Anderson College.

Tomkeieff died on 27 October 1968 in Newcastle aged 76.

Family

In 1931 he married Olive Gower Farmer, daughter of Amos Farmer.

Publications

Author of about 150 publications,[2] among them:

  • The Tholeite Dyke at Cowgate (1953)
  • Coals, Bitumens and other Related Fossil Carbonaceous Substances (1954)
  • Isle of Arran (1961)
  • The Economic Geology of Quarried Materials (1969)
  • Dictionary of Petrology (1983) (posthumous)

References
  1. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  2. List of publications IS History of geology and mining, 2022.
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