| LC control no. | n 85088782 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kerr, Paul F. (Paul Francis), 1897-1981 |
| Variant(s) | Kerr, Paul Francis, 1897- |
| Birth date | 18970112 |
| Death date | 19810227 |
| Place of birth | Hemet (Calif.) |
| Place of death | Palo Alto (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Mineralogy Uranium ores Tungsten ores Geology X-rays |
| Affiliation | Columbia University Occidental College Stanford University Mineralogical Society of America Manhattan Project (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | College teachers Geologists |
| Found in | U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Div. of Raw Materials. Annual report for July 1, 1951 to June 30, 1952, 1952: cover (Paul F. Kerr) LC data base, 1/27/85 (hdg.: Kerr, Paul Francis, 1897- ; usage: Paul F. Kerr) Paul F. Kerr Memor. Symp. (1985 : N.Y., N.Y.). Mineralogy--applications ... 1985: t.p. (Paul F. Kerr) p. 261, etc. (b. 1/12/1897, Hemet, Calif.; d. 2/27/81, Palo Alto, Calif.) New York times WWW site, Dec. 5, 2013 : in obituary published March 6, 1981 (Dr. Paul F. Kerr, 84; Dr. Paul F. Kerr, a former Newberry Professor of Mineralogy at Columbia University who specialized in studies of uranium deposits for the Manhattan Project... He had been a teacher of mineralogy and scientist at Columbia... Dr. Kerr also had studied the geology of tungsten and the application of X-rays to mineralogical procedures. Dr. Kerr, who was born in Hemet, Calif., graduated from Occidental College and received a doctorate in geology from Stanford. He was a former president of the Mineralogical Society of America.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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