Ernest Willington Skeats (1 November 1875 – 20 January 1953) was anEnglish-Australiangeologist and academic.[1]
Skeats was born in Berais Town,Southampton, England, son of Frank George Skeats, a bank clerk and his wife Alice Erena Martin and was educated at Handel andHartley colleges, Southampton, and entered theRoyal College of Science,London, where he received aD.Sc. in geology in 1902.[2]
Skeats moved toAustralia in 1904, succeedingJohn Walter Gregory in the chair of geology and mineralogy at theUniversity of Melbourne. He specialised inpetrology andstratigraphy.
Skeats was President of theRoyal Society of Victoria 1910–1911.[1]
He was elected president of theAustralasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy for 1925.[1][3]
He won theClarke Medal, awarded by theRoyal Society of New South Wales in 1929.[1]
In 1937 he was awarded theMueller Medal by theAustralian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science.[4]
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