Willet Green Miller Explained

Willet Green Miller
Birth Name:Willet Green Miller
Birth Date:1866
Birth Place:Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada
Nationality:Canadian
Alma Mater:BSc, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 1890
PhD, Heidelberg University[1]
Known For:Geologist who gave to Cobalt its name
Field:Geology
Work Institutions:Queen's University at Kingston
Prizes:Gold medal from the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy of London (1915)

Willet Green Miller FRSC was a Canadian geologist and professor of Geology and Petrography (1893)[2]

Career

Birth in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada in 1866.[3]

Educated at Port Rowan High School.

Graduated from the University of Toronto in 1890 in Natural Science. Post-graduate work at Harvard, Chicago, and Heidelberg Universities in mapping for the Geological Survey.

Professor of Geology and Petrography of the Queen's University at Kingston in 1893.

Miller became the first provincial geologist for the province of Ontario in 1902.

Achievements

He was the first to recognize the importance of the discoveries in Cobalt, at a time when no precious metals were being mined in northern Ontario.

Honors

Gold medal from the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy of London in 1915.

Memory

Willet G. Miller Medal has been established in his honor in 1941.

Miller Hall is named after Willet Green Miller in Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario.[4]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.mininghalloffame.ca/willet-green-miller The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame: Willet Green Miller
  2. https://www.queensu.ca/encyclopedia/m/miller-willet-green Queen's Encyclopedia: Miller, Willet Green
  3. James E. Thomson Willet Green Miller - Ontario's first provincial geologist. - 1970, p.38
  4. https://www.queensu.ca/encyclopedia/m/miller-hall Miller Hall