Henry Emeleus


Charles Henry Emeleus was a British igneous petrologist. He specialized in the Tertiary volcanic rocks of Britain and Greenland.

Personal life

Henry Emeleus was born in Belfast in 1930. He was the son of physicist Karl George Emeléus, a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, and nephew of chemist Harry Julius Emeléus.
Emeleus died on 11 November 2017 in Durham, UK.

Research

After gaining undergraduate and master's degrees at Queen's University Belfast in 1952 and 1953 respectively, Emeleus went to work with Bill Wager at Oxford, where he was a student at Wadham College, Oxford. He graduated with a PhD in 1957. During this period he was introduced to the layered igneous rocks of Greenland and Rùm, where he initially worked with George Malcolm Brown.
In addition to his teaching and research into igneous rocks, Emeleus was a highly capable petrologist.
The mineral emeleusite, a colourless sodium silicate, is named after him.

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