Marjorie Wilson (also known asB. Marjorie Wilson) (born 1951) is an Englishgeologist andpetrologist known for her formative work on the origin ofigneous rocks. Her most significant book isIgneous Petrogenesis: A Global Tectonic Approach, published in 1989. The book wasreprinted in 2007.
Wilson studied atSt Hilda's College, Oxford and graduated with a first classBA inGeology in 1973, later converted to anMA. She took an MA at theUniversity of California, Berkeley also in Geology in 1974 and aPhD in Geology at theUniversity of Leeds in 1976.
Wilson was aNatural Environment Research Council (NERC) Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds from 1976 to 1978. She spent the rest of her career at Leeds, becomingLecturer in Igneous Petrology in 1978 andSenior Lecturer in 1991. In 1998 she was appointedProfessor of Igneous Petrogenesis and, since 2013, she has beenEmeritus Professor of Igneous Petrogenesis at Leeds.[1][2][3]
Wilson was executive editor of theJournal of Petrology from 1994 to 2020.[2][4]
In 1998, Wilson was elected a foreign member of theNorwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[3][better source needed] In 2000, she received an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy fromUppsala University.[3][better source needed] In 2006, she received the Coke Medal fromGeological Society of London.[5]
Wilson was married to Alastair Lumsden, previouslySenior Lecturer in the Faculty of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds. He died on 22 July 2019, aged 81.[1]
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