Margaret C. Cobb
{{short description|Geologist}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date |1892|09|17}}
| birth_place = Lincolnton, North Carolina
| death_date = {{death date and age |1975|05|28 |1892|09|17}}
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| alma_mater = {{unbulleted list |North Carolina Normal and Industrial College|Barnard College|Columbia University|Bryn Mawr College}}
| thesis_title = The origin of corundum associated with dunite in Western North Carolina
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| thesis_year = 1924
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Margaret Cameron Cobb was a petroleum geologist. She was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1931.
Education and career
Cobb was born in Lincolnton, North Carolina in 1892.{{Cite book |last=Cobb |first=Margaret Cameron |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001487915 |title=The origin of corundum associated with dunite in western North Carolina |date=1924 |publisher=s.n. |location=Bryn Mawr, Pa.}} She received an A.B. from North Carolina Normal and Industrial College (now known as the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) in 1912.{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/alumninewsunifall1974unse |title=Alumni News/University of North Carolina at Greensboro |date=1974 |publisher=Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro |others=University Libraries The University of North Carolina at Greensboro |pages=12}} Cobb taught in schools in Norfolk, Virginia from 1912 until 1914 before moving to Barnard College where she received an A.B. in 1915. From 1915 until 1916 she did graduate studies at Columbia University working with Ida Helen Ogilvie, Charles Peter Berkey, Douglas Wilson Johnson, and Amadeus William Grabau.
Cobb did two fellowship studies at Bryn Mawr College first earning a fellowship in 1916,{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1916-05-13_65_21-294 |title=The New York Times 1916-05-13: Vol 65 Iss 21,294 |date=1916-05-13 |language=English}} and then returning for study there from 1919 until 1920.{{Cite book |last=Bryn Mawr College |url=http://archive.org/details/brynmawrcalendar14bryn |title=Bryn Mawr College Calendar, 1921 |date=1921 |publisher=Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College |others=Special Collections Bryn Mawr College Library}} In between she taught at Mount Holyoke College from 1917 until 1919.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ea9CC4lCicQC&dq=margaret+cobb+amerada+petroleum+corporation&pg=PA458 |title=American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory |date=1949 |publisher=Bowker |pages=458 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=College |first=Mount Holyoke |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bD3PAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22margaret+cobb%22+bryn+mawr&pg=PA86 |title=Annual Report of the President ... |date=1917 |language=en}} While at Bryn Mawr, and she worked with Florence Bascom, Thomas Clachar Brown, Malcolm Havers Bisseil, and James Llewellyn Crenshaw. She received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in 1924,{{Cite book |last=Barnard College |url=http://archive.org/details/bulletinofassoci142barn |title=The Bulletin of the Associate Alumnae of Barnard College |date=1925 |publisher=Barnard College |others=Barnard College |pages=22}} and then began work with the Amerada Petroleum Corporation.{{Cite web |title=Historic Fellows {{!}} American Association for the Advancement of Science |url=https://www.aaas.org/fellows/historic |access-date=2022-04-06 |website=www.aaas.org |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=1938-12-07 |title=Women enter geology field |pages=17 |work=The News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99232762/women-enter-geology-field/ |access-date=2022-04-07}}
Cobb's translation of Elements of Geophysics as Applied to Explorations for Minerals, Oil And Gas{{Cite book |last=Ambronn |first=Richard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=exEJAQAAIAAJ |title=Elements of Geophysics as Applied to Explorations for Minerals, Oil and Gas |date=1928 |publisher=McGraw-Hill Book Company, Incorporated |language=en |translator-last=Cobb |translator-first=Margaret C.}} was reviewed in Science in 1932.{{Cite journal |last=Lambert |first=Walter D. |date=1932-07-08 |title=Elements of Geophysics as Applied to Explorations for Minerals, Oils and Gas By Dr. Richard Ambronn, Göttingen. Translated by Margaret C. Cobb, Ph.D., New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.76.1958.35.b |journal=Science |volume=76 |issue=1958 |pages=35–36 |doi=10.1126/science.76.1958.35.b |s2cid=239866183 |issn=0036-8075|url-access=subscription }}
Cobb died on May 28, 1975.{{Cite book |last=Barnard College |url=http://archive.org/details/barnardalumnae642barn |title=Barnard Alumnae |date=1975 |publisher=Barnard College |others=Barnard College |pages=23}}
Selected publications
- {{Cite journal |last=Cobb |first=Margaret C. |date=1925 |title=Desilicated genesis of commercial corundum |journal=Pan-Am. Geologist |volume=43 |pages=257}}
Awards and honors
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Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Category:American women geologists