Arquivo F1580 - James Edwin Hawley fonds

James Edwin (Ed) Hawley was born in Kingston, Ontario, in 1897, and attended Queen's University at Kingston, where he received his B.A (1918) and M.A (1920). He obtained his PhD in 1926 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1929, Hawley returned to Queen's and became professor and Head of the Department of Mineralogy, until 1949, when this Department merged with the Department of Geology to form the Departrment of Geological Sciences. The year before he had established the Spectrographic Lab, and in 1949, he alsoa ccepted the Miller memorial Research Chair, succedding the recently deceased E.L. Bruce, a positon he held until his resignation in 1963. Hawley's areas of study ranged from petroleum geology to interpretive mineralogy in which he studied the affects of transportation and deposit on the condition of minerals. In 1955, the mineral Hawleyite was named after him. In retirement, he continued his interest in some of his original post graduate students, as well as maintaining memberships in various geological organization. J.E. Hawley passed away in 1965, in Arizona.