Background
Mason, Brian Harold was born on April 18, 1917 in New Zealand. Came to United States, 1947, naturalized, 1953. Son of George Harold and Catherine (Fairweather) Mason.
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Victor Moritz Goldschmidt: Father of Modern Geochemistry (Special Publication No. 4) by Mason, Brian (1992) Hardcover
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Victor Moritz Goldschmidt: Father of Modern Geochemistry (Special Publication No. 4)
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Book by Mason, Brian
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- Victor Moritz Goldschmidt : Father of Modern Geochemistry, 1992, The Geochemical Society, Special Publications Series, Number 4 : 184 pages with illustrations. (1992 The Geochemical Society, Special Publications Series...)
Brian Harold Mason
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Brian Harold Mason, New Zealand geologist, curator. Recipient Leonard medal, Meteoritical Society, 1972, Roebling medal, Mineralogical Society America, 1993. Fellow Mineralogical Society of America, Geological Society of America; member Geochem. Society, Royal Society New Zealand, Swedish Geological Society.
Education
He was educated at Christchurch Boys" High School and studied geology and chemistry at Canterbury University College, graduating Master of Science with first-class honours in 1939. In 1943, he completed a Doctor of Philosophy in geochemistry at the University of Stockholm under Victor Goldschmidt.
Career
Mason played a leading part in understanding the nature of the solar system through his studies of meteorites and lunar rocks. He also examined and classified thousands of meteorites collected from Antarctica. Mason returned to Christchurch where he was appointed lecture of geology at Canterbury University College.
He taught there for two years.
In 1947, he was appointed professor of mineralogy at Indiana University where he was based for rest of his life. He was a curator of mineralogy at both the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia Two minerals have been named after Mason.
Brianite is a phosphate mineral and stenhuggarite (from the Swedish ‘stenhuggar’ – ‘mason’) is a rare iron-antimony mineral. Asteroid 12926 Brianmason is also named in his honor.
He was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1984.
Mason died in Washington, District of Columbia, on 3 December 2009 from renal failure. Mason was married two other times, first to Anne Marie Linn and then to Virginia Powell. Both marriages ended in divorce.
George died in a mountain climbing accident in 1981 at the age of 20.
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Works
book
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Victor Moritz Goldschmidt : Father of Modern Geochemistry, 1992, The Geochemical Society, Special Publications Series, Number 4 : 184 pages with illustrations.
(1992 The Geochemical Society, Special Publications Series...)
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Victor Moritz Goldschmidt: Father of Modern Geochemistry (Special Publication No. 4)
(Book by Mason, Brian)
- Victor Moritz Goldschmidt: Father of Modern Geochemistry (Special Publication No. 4) by Mason, Brian (1992) Hardcover
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Victor Moritz Goldschmidt : Father of Modern Geochemistry, 1992, The Geochemical Society, Special Publications Series, Number 4 : 184 pages with illustrations.
Membership
Fellow Mineralogical Society of America, Geological Society of America. Member Geochem. Society, Royal Society New Zealand, Swedish Geological Society.
Connections
Married Anne Marie Linn (divorced). Married Virginia Powell (divorced). Married Margarita Babb Mason, 1984 (deceased February 15, 2009).
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New Zealand