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O. Frank Tuttle

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at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution in Washington. There he invented the "Tuttle Press" and the "Tuttle Bomb" (a high-pressure chamber), which were widely used in experimental petrography. Together with Bowen he explored in particular the formation of granite. In 1953 he became
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for his doctoral work, which was interrupted by the Second World War, in which he was engaged in wartime research on crystal growth and characterization. In 1948 he received his doctorate at MIT. In 1947, he started his collaboration in experimental petrography with
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professor of geochemistry at Pennsylvania State University. In 1959 he became dean of the college of mineral industries. In 1960, he was diagnosed with
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He was awarded in 1952 the Mineralogical Society of America Award, in 1975 the
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He married Dawn Hardes in 1941 and the couple had two daughters.
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The Portville Review, Portville, Cattaraugus County, New York
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Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences alumni
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Norman Levi Bowen
Olean, New York
Tucson, Arizona
granites
feldspars
Smethport, Pennsylvania
Bradford
Pennsylvania State College
Pennsylvania State University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Norman L. Bowen
Parkinson's disease
Stanford University
Alzheimer's disease
Roebling Medal
Arthur L. Day Medal
Geological Society of London
National Academy of Sciences
"Memorial of Orville Frank Tuttle"
"A new hydrothermal quenching apparatus"
Bibcode
1948AmJS..246..628T
doi
10.2475/ajs.246.10.628
"5 Years Ago"
Categories
American mineralogists
American geochemists
Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences alumni

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