Ernest Skeats

Background

Skeats was born in Berais Town, Southampton, England, son of Frank George Skeats, a bank clerk and his wife Alice Erena Martin and was educated at Handel and Hartley colleges, Southampton, and entered the Royal College of Science, London, where he received a Doctor of Science in 1902.

Education

University of Southampton.

Career

Skeats moved to Australia in 1904, succeeding John Walter Gregory in the chair of geology and mineralogy at the University of Melbourne. He specialised in petrology and stratigraphy. Skeats was President of the Royal Society of Victoria 1910–1911.

Achievements

He won the Clarke Medal, awarded by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1929.

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Born

November 1, 1875

Berais Town, Southampton, England
Died

January 20, 1953 (aged 77)
Nationality
English-Australian

Awards

Clarke Medal

The Clarke Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of New South Wales, the oldest learned society in Australia and in the Southern Hemisphere, for distinguished work in the Natural sciences.

The Clarke Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of New South Wales, the oldest learned society in Australia and in the Southern Hemisphere, for distinguished work in the Natural sciences.

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