Background
Adams, Geoge Irving was born on August 17, 1870 in Lena, Illinois, United States. Son of Howard Brooks and Ruth Ann (Harris) Adams.
Adams, Geoge Irving was born on August 17, 1870 in Lena, Illinois, United States. Son of Howard Brooks and Ruth Ann (Harris) Adams.
Graduate Kansas State Normal School, 1889. Bachelor of Arts, University of Kansas, 1893, Master of Arts, 1895. Doctor of Science, Princeton, 1896.
Student of University of Munich and Yale University.
Instructor natural sciences, Kansas State Normal School, 1893-1894. Assistant geologist University Geological Survey of Kansas, 1894-1897. Field assistant United States Geological Survey, 1898-1899, assistant geologist, 1900-1904.
Chief hydrologist Cuerpo de Ingenieros de Minas del Peru, 1904-1906.
Mine examinations, South. America, 1906-1907. Geologist Division of Mines, bureau of Science, Philippine Islands, 1908-1910.
Professor geology and mining, Pei Yang University, Tientsin, China, 1912-1915. With Peking Government University, 1915-1920.
Professor geology and mineralogy, University of Alabama, since 1920.
Geologist Geological Survey of Alabama, since 1927. Home: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Married Bertha Barin, 1914.