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Margaret C. Cobb
Birth Date:17 September 1892
Birth Place:Lincolnton, North Carolina
Thesis Title:The origin of corundum associated with dunite in Western North Carolina
Thesis Url:https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
Thesis Year:1924

Margaret Cameron Cobb was a petroleum geologist. She was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1931.

Education and career

Cobb was born in Lincolnton, North Carolina in 1892.[1] She received an A.B. from North Carolina Normal and Industrial College (now known as the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) in 1912.[2] Cobb taught in schools in Norfolk, Virginia from 1912 until 1914 before moving to Barnard College where she received an A.B. in 1915. From 1915 until 1916 she did graduate studies at Columbia University working with Ida Helen Ogilvie, Charles Peter Berkey, Douglas Wilson Johnson, and Amadeus William Grabau.

Cobb did two fellowship studies at Bryn Mawr College first earning a fellowship in 1916,[3] and then returning for study there from 1919 until 1920.[4] In between she taught at Mount Holyoke College from 1917 until 1919.[5] [6] While at Bryn Mawr, and she worked with Florence Bascom, Thomas Clachar Brown, Malcolm Havers Bisseil, and James Llewellyn Crenshaw. She received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in 1924,[7] and then began work with the Amerada Petroleum Corporation.[8] [9]

Cobb's translation of Elements of Geophysics as Applied to Explorations for Minerals, Oil And Gas[10] was reviewed in Science in 1932.[11]

Cobb died on May 28, 1975.[12]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

Cobb was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1931, and was in the 1949 edition of American Men of Science.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Cobb, Margaret Cameron . The origin of corundum associated with dunite in western North Carolina . 1924 . s.n. . Bryn Mawr, Pa..
  2. Book: Alumni News/University of North Carolina at Greensboro . 1974 . Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro . University Libraries The University of North Carolina at Greensboro . 12.
  3. Book: The New York Times 1916-05-13: Vol 65 Iss 21,294 . 1916-05-13 . English.
  4. Book: Bryn Mawr College . Bryn Mawr College Calendar, 1921 . 1921 . Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College . Special Collections Bryn Mawr College Library.
  5. Book: American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory . 1949 . Bowker . 458 . en.
  6. Book: College, Mount Holyoke . Annual Report of the President ... . 1917 . en.
  7. Book: Barnard College . The Bulletin of the Associate Alumnae of Barnard College . 1925 . Barnard College . Barnard College . 22.
  8. Web site: Historic Fellows American Association for the Advancement of Science . 2022-04-06 . www.aaas.org . en.
  9. News: 1938-12-07 . Women enter geology field . 17 . The News . 2022-04-07.
  10. Book: Ambronn, Richard . Elements of Geophysics as Applied to Explorations for Minerals, Oil and Gas . 1928 . McGraw-Hill Book Company, Incorporated . en . Cobb . Margaret C..
  11. Lambert . Walter D. . 1932-07-08 . Elements of Geophysics as Applied to Explorations for Minerals, Oils and Gas By Dr. Richard Ambronn, Göttingen. Translated by Margaret C. Cobb, Ph.D., New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co. . Science . 76 . 1958 . 35–36 . 10.1126/science.76.1958.35.b . 239866183 . 0036-8075.
  12. Book: Barnard College . Barnard Alumnae . 1975 . Barnard College . Barnard College . 23.

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