Background
Bradley, Wilmot Hyde was born on April 4, 1899 in Westville, Connecticut, United States. Son of John Lucius and Anna Miner (Hyde) Bradley.
Bradley, Wilmot Hyde was born on April 4, 1899 in Westville, Connecticut, United States. Son of John Lucius and Anna Miner (Hyde) Bradley.
He attended college at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University and graduated from Yale in 1920 with a Doctor of Philosophy in geology, after switching from engineering and chemistry.
After two years as geologic aide to Julian Doctorate. Sears of the United States Geological Survey, he was taken on by the Survey to work full-time on the Eocene Green River Formation because of its oil-shale potential. As a result of his work there, the mineral "trisodium magnesium phosphate carbonate" was named Bradleyite in his honor. Bill Bradley was buried at a tiny local graveyard situated on his property at Pigeon Hill Road, Steuben, Maine.
On his gravestone, he had engraved in advance the phrase, "The Earth has music for those who listen".
(Although this phrase is of uncertain origin, a similar phrase -- "The Earth has its music for those who will listen"—first appeared in print in 1955 in a poem by Reginald Vincent Holmes).
Served with United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1918. Member National Academy Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Geological Society American (Penrose Gold medal 1972), Limnological and Oceanographic Society, International Limnological Society, American Association Petroleum Geologists, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Club: Cosmos (Washington).
Married Catrina van Benschoten, November 4, 1922. Children: Ann, Penelope (Mistress David Shavit).