Background
DONNAY, Joseph Desire Hubert was born on June 6, 1902 in Grandville, Belgium. Son of Joseph Donnay and Marie Doyen.
DONNAY, Joseph Desire Hubert was born on June 6, 1902 in Grandville, Belgium. Son of Joseph Donnay and Marie Doyen.
Liege and Stanford Universities.
Fellow, Stanford University 1930-1931. Association, in Mineralogy and Petrography, Johns Hopkins University 1931-1939. Professor Laval University Quebec 1939-1945.
Research Chemist, Hercules Powder Company 1942-1945.
Visiting Professor Johns Hopkins University 1945. Professor University of Liege 1946-1947, Honorary Professor since 1948.
Professor, of Crystallography and Mineralogy, Johns Hopkins University 1946-1971, Emeritus Professor since 1971. Visiting Professor University of Marburg 1966, 1968.
Charge de cours, University de Montreal 1970-1972, Guest Professor 1972-1976.
Research Association, in Crystallography, McGill University since 1975. Secretary-Treasure American Society for X-ray and Electron Diffraction 1944-1946. Vice-President Society Geologique Belgique 1946-1947.
Vice-President Mineralogical Society of America 1949 and 1952, President 1953.
Vice-President Crystallographic Society of America 1946 and 1948, President 1949. Correspondent; President Society frangaise de Mineralogie 1949, Honorary.
President Geological Society of America 1954. President American Crystallographic Association 1956.
Fulbright Lecturer, Sorbonne 1958-1959.
Vice-President Association frangaise de Cristallographie 1959-1960. Correspondent.
Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege. 1978; Society Geologique Belgique 1966, Honorary member 1972. Emeritus Philadelphia Mineralogical Society 1974.
Japan Mineralogical Society 1982.
Married 1st Marie Hennin 1931, 2nd Gabrielle Hamburger in 1949.