Frances E. Alexander
Frances E. Alexander was a British geologist of the 20th Century.
She was born on 13 December 1908 to Gertrude Sailan and K.C. Caldwell. After being awarded the Charlotte Mary Yonge Scholarship in 1928, she attended Newnham College and got a degree in natural sciences. She moved with her husband, physicist Norman S. Alexander in 1936 to Singapore, and studied the tropical weathering of rocks. After World War II, she was appointed registrar of the newly forming University of Malaya, and then moved on to become an official geologist for the Singapore Government. Later, she moved to Nigeria, where she continued her studies.
Alexander's research for her doctorate was on the main outcrop of the Aymestry Limestone, research which sparked further research on shelf deposits of the Ludlovian. She published several papers of her research during her lifetime.
