Ian S. E. Carmichael

{{Infobox scientist

| honorific_suffix = {{postnom|FRS|size=100%}}

| birth_name = Ian Stuart Edward Carmichael

| birth_date = {{birth date|1930|03|29|df=y}}

| birth_place = London, England, UK

| death_date = {{death date and age|2011|08|26|1930|03|29|df=y}}

| death_place = Berkeley, California, US

| workplaces = University of California, Berkeley

| education = Westminster School

| alma_mater = {{ubl|University of Cambridge (BA, MA)|Imperial College London (PhD)}}

| thesis_title = Volcanic geology of Thingmuli, eastern Iceland

| thesis_url = http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/13654

| thesis_year = 1962

| doctoral_advisor = George P. L. Walker

| notable_students = {{hlist|Wes Hildreth|Charles R. Bacon|Frank J. Spera|Mark S. Ghiorso|Jim Luhr|Rebecca Lange}}

| known_for = Thermodynamics of igneous systems

}}

Ian Stuart Edward Carmichael {{postnom|FRS}} (29 March 1930 –26 August 2011) was a British-born American igneous petrologist and volcanologist who established extensive quantitative methods for research in the thermodynamics of magma.

Early life and education

Carmichael was born on 29 March 1930 in London,{{cite journal |last1=Lange |first1=Rebecca |author-link=Rebecca Lange |date=14 February 2012 |title=Ian S. E. Carmichael (1930–2011) |journal=Eos |language=en |volume=93 |issue=7 |pages=68 |bibcode=2012EOSTr..93...68L |doi=10.1029/2012EO070006 |doi-access=free}} and was raised in the town of Haywards Heath. He was educated at Westminster School in London from age six until his senior year of high school, when he took an exchange trip to Connecticut; he stayed in the United States and enrolled in the Colorado School of Mines. He studied there for one semester before returning to England, where he was drafted into the British Army. He served in Egypt, Palestine, and Sudan for two years before joining the University of Cambridge. He obtained Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in geology from Cambridge in 1954,{{Cite web |last=Lange |first=Rebecca |author-link=Rebecca Lange |date=1 September 2011 |title=[Ian S. E. Carmichael (1930–2011)] |url=https://www.geochemsoc.org/news/2011/09/01/ian-s-e-carmichael-1930-2011 |access-date=23 May 2024 |publisher=Geochemical Society |language=en}} and his Ph.D. in 1958 from Imperial College London, where he wrote his thesis on Iceland's Thingmuli volcano.{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |publisher=Imperial College London |title=Volcanic geology of Thingmuli, eastern Iceland |first=Ian Stuart Edward |last=Carmichael |date=1962 |id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.602161}} |hdl=10044/1/13654}} {{free access}}

Career and research

After completing his thesis, Carmichael worked as a lecturer at Imperial College. In 1963, he began a six-month leave to work at the University of Chicago. He applied for more time at the conclusion of his term, but was rejected. Carmichael was invited to give a lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, which led to him starting a tenured position as an associate professor.{{cite web |last=Wood |first=Bernard |author-link=Bernard Wood (geologist) |title=[Ian Stuart Edward Carmichael, 1930–2011] |url=https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/en/About/History/Obituaries%202001%20onwards/Obituaries%202011/Ian%20Stuart%20Edward%20Carmichael%201930-2011 |access-date=23 May 2024 |publisher=The Geological Society of London}} He remained at Berkeley for the remainder of his career, and retired from the university in 2004.{{Cite web |last=Sanders |first=Robert |date=2011-09-15 |title=UC Berkeley volcano expert Ian Carmichael has died at 81 |url=https://news.berkeley.edu/2011/09/15/uc-berkeley-volcano-expert-ian-carmichael-has-died-at-81/ |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=Berkeley News |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |language=en}}

In 2004,{{Cite journal |last=Kerr |first=A. C. |date=August 2004 |title=[Review: Landmark Papers: Volcanic Petrology] |url=https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/minmag/article-abstract/68/4/715/85388/Carmichael-I-S-E-Landmark-Papers-Volcanic?redirectedFrom=fulltext |journal=Mineralogical Magazine |language=en |volume=68 |issue=4 |pages=715–716 |doi=10.1180/S0026461X00041827}} Carmichael was the volume 1 editor of B. J. Wood's Landmark Papers series.{{Cite web |title=Landmark papers |url=https://www.minersoc.org/landmark.html |access-date=2024-05-24 |publisher=Mineralogical Society of the United Kingdom and Ireland |language=en-GB}}

=Awards and honours=

Carmichael was the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions including a special issue of Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology published in his honor in 2013, the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland's 1992 Mineralogical Society–Schlumberger Award,{{Cite journal |date=September 1993 |title=1992 Mineralogical Society–Schlumberger Award |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/mineralogical-magazine/article/abs/1992-mineralogical-societyschlumberger-award/6A46975E42BC731E6E0A1A70149F2E94 |journal=Mineralogical Magazine |language=en |volume=57 |issue=388 |pages=545–548 |doi=10.1180/minmag.1993.057.388.19|bibcode=1993MinM...57..545. }} a Guggenheim Fellowship that same year, the Arthur L. Day Medal in 1991, and the {{Ill|Norman L. Bowen Award|lt=Bowen Award|de|Norman L. Bowen Award}} in 1986.

Carmichael was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1999, and an honorary fellow of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2004.{{Cite web |title=[Honorary membership/fellowship] |url=https://www.minersoc.org/honorary-membership.html |access-date=2024-05-24 |publisher=Mineralogical Society of the United Kingdom and Ireland |language=en-GB}} He was also a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the Mineralogical Society of America, and the American Geophysical Union.{{cite journal |last1=Ghiorso |first1=Mark S. |author1-link=Mark S. Ghiorso |last2=Moore |first2=Gordon |last3=Wallace |first3=Paul J. |date=September 2013 |title=An issue honoring Ian S. E. Carmichael |journal=Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology |language=en |volume=166 |issue=3 |pages=655–663 |bibcode=2013CoMP..166..655G |doi=10.1007/s00410-013-0930-1 |doi-access=free}} The mineral carmichaelite,{{Cite web |last=UC Berkeley Office of Public Affairs |date=2011 |title=Ian S. E. Carmichael |url=https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/inmemoriam/html/iansecarmichael.html |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=Academic Senate |publisher=University of California}} as well as the Geological Society of America's Carmichael Student Research Grants program, are both named in his honor.{{Cite web |title=Carmichael Student Research Grants |url=https://community.geosociety.org/mgpvdivision/awards/studentcarmichaelresearchgrants |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=Mineralogy Geochemistry Petrology Volcanology Division |publisher=Geological Society of America |language=en}}

Ian S. E. Carmichael

Early life and education

Career and research

=Awards and honours=

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