Willet Green Miller
Born
Willet Green Miller

1866
Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada
Died1925(1925-00-00) (aged 58–59)
NationalityCanadian
Alma materBSc, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 1890
PhD, Heidelberg University[1]
Known forGeologist who gave to Cobalt its name
AwardsGold medal from the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy of London (1915)
Scientific career
FieldsGeology
InstitutionsQueen's University at Kingston

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]

References

  1. ↑ The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame: Willet Green Miller
  2. ↑ Queen's Encyclopedia: Miller, Willet Green
  3. ↑ James E. Thomson Willet Green Miller - Ontario's first provincial geologist. - 1970, p.38
  4. ↑ Miller Hall
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