Background
Anderson, Robert Van Vleck was born on April 18, 1884 in Galesburg, Illinois, United States. Son of Melville Best (Doctor of Laws) and Charlena (van Vleck) A.
Anderson, Robert Van Vleck was born on April 18, 1884 in Galesburg, Illinois, United States. Son of Melville Best (Doctor of Laws) and Charlena (van Vleck) A.
Bachelor of Arts, Stanford University, 1906.
Geological and zoölogical work, Japan, 1905. Assistant in investigations of California earthquake for Carnegie Institute, 1906. Geologic aid, assistant geologist and geologist, United States Geological Survey, 1906-1913.
Made investigations of geological and petroleum resources of California, and was member Oil Land Classification Board.
As consultant geologist visited many parts of world since 1911. Geologist for South. Pearson & Son, Limited., London, England., 1913-1918.
Representative of the United States War Trade Board in Sweden. American delegate on Inter-Allied Trade Committee, Stockholm, 1918-1919.
Director Whitehall Petroleum Corporation, Limited., London, 1919-1923, chief geologist, 1923-1926.
Engaged in independent scientific work, 1927-1934. Collaborateur, Service de la Carte Geologique de l’Algerie, 1930-1932. Research in Algeria under grant from Geological Society America, 1933.
With Socony Vacuum Oil Corporation, Incorporated., 1934-1944.
Research associate, Stanford University, since 1945.
Fellow Geological Society of America (chairman Cordilleran section 1928), California Academy Sciences. Member Paleontological Society America, Association American Geographers, Society Economics Geologists, Archæol. Institute America, American Association Petroleum Geologists, Societe Geologique de France, Sigma Xi.
Married Gracella Rountree, March 1923. Children: Robert Playfair, Patricia Sage (Mistress John Loveland Armstrong), Gracella Gurnee.