Background
Foose, Richard Martin was born on October 9, 1915 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Leon K. and Grace (Leinbach) Foose.
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Richard Martin Foose
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Bachelor of Science, Franklin and Marshall College, 1937. Master of Science, Northwestern University, 1939. Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1942.
Master of Arts (honorary), Amherst College, 1964.
Career
Instructor Northwestern University, 1937-1939. Professor and head department geology Franklin and Marshall College, 1946-1957. Senior geologist Stanford Research Institute, 1957-1963.
Chairman department earth science. Professor, chairman department geology Amherst (Massachusetts) College, since 1963. Assistant geologist Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 1939-1942, associate geologist, 1942-1943, senior geologist, 1943-1946.
Geologist Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, 1941. Consultant geologist, since 1942. Ford Foundation fellow, research associate Stanford University, 1955-1956.
National Science Foundation senior postdoctoral fellow Eidg. Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland, 1962-1963. National Academy of Sciences fellow, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1969, 76, Bulgaria, 1972.
Achievements
Membership
United States government delegate International Geological Congress, 1968. Member National Research Council, since 1969. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Geological Society of America, American Geography Society.
Member Society Economic Geologists (councillor 1954-1957), American Institute of Mining (chairman division industrial minerals 1950-1951, vice chairman mineral economic division 1953-1954, delegate international geological congress 1952, 56, 60, chairman council mineral economics 1962-1963, associate editor Industrial Minerals and Rocks 1960, 75, 81, editor, 3d edition 1985), Yellowstone Bighorn Research Association (vice president 1955, 83-84, president 1985-1987), Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences (president 1949-1950), American Geological Institute (editor Datasheets 1989), Association Geological Teachers (delegate international geological congress 1956), American Geophysical Union, American Institute Professional Geologists (charter. Secretary 1968), Geochem. Society, Association Engineering Geology, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Clubs: Torch (Lancaster).
Connections
Married Dorothy Jane Kell, February 11, 1943. Children: Michele Leslie, Michael Peter, Stephan, Terry.
