Reginald Aldworth Daly

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birth_date = March 18,1871
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death_date = September 19,1957
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nationality =Canadian
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field = geology
work_institutions = Harvard University
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Reginald Aldworth Daly (March 18,1871 – September 19,1957) was a Canadian geologist. He was a professor at Harvard University from 1912 until 1942, after working as a field geologist for the Canadian International Boundary Commission.

He examined the rocks along a 400 miles stretch at the 49th parallel, which led him to formulate a theory of the origins of igneous rocks, and published his seminal work "Igneous Rocks and Their Origin" in 1914. According to Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything," he was an early proponent of both Arthur Holmes' Continental drift theory and the impact theory of lunar creation.

Daly was awarded the Penrose Medal in 1935 and the William Bowie Medal in 1946. Craters on Mars and the Moon are named in his honor, and his Cambridge house (the Reginald A. Daly House) is now a National Historic Landmark.

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*Citation
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url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16588027
last=Daly
first=R A
publication-date=1935 Dec
year=1935
title=Densities of Rocks Calculated from Their Chemical Analyses.
volume=21
issue=12
periodical=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.
pages=657-63
*Citation
id = PMID:17797838
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17797838
last=Daly
first=
publication-date=1933 Jan 27
year=1933
title=THE DEPTHS OF THE EARTH.
volume=77
issue=1987
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pages=95-102
doi = 10.1126/science.77.1987.95
*Citation
id = PMID:17807633
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17807633
last=Daly
first=
publication-date=1931 Dec 4
year=1931
title=GARDINER ON CORAL REEFS.
volume=74
issue=1927
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pages=566-567
doi = 10.1126/science.74.1927.566
*Citation
id = PMID:16586806
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16586806
last=Daly
first=R A
publication-date=1920 May
year=1920
title=A General Sinking of Sea-Level in Recent Time.
volume=6
issue=5
periodical=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.
pages=246-50
*Citation
id = PMID:16576265
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16576265
last=Daly
first=R A
publication-date=1917 Nov
year=1917
title=Low-Temperature Formation of Alkaline Feldspars in Limestones.
volume=3
issue=11
periodical=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.
pages=659-65
*Citation
id = PMID:16586654
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16586654
last=Daly
first=R A
publication-date=1916 Dec
year=1916
title=A New Test of the Subsidence Theory of Coral Reefs.
volume=2
issue=12
periodical=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.
pages=664-70
*Citation
id = PMID:17733661
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17733661
last=Daly
first=
publication-date=1901 Jun 14
year=1901
title=NOTES ON OCEANOGRAPHY.
volume=13
issue=337
periodical=Science
pages=951-954
doi = 10.1126/science.13.337.951
*Citation
id = PMID:17816318
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17816318
last=Daly
first=
publication-date=1901 Feb 1
year=1901
title=SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO ICELAND, GREENLAND AND LABRADOR.
volume=13
issue=318
periodical=
pages=192
doi = 10.1126/science.13.318.192