George Thurland Prior
George Thurland Prior FRS[1] (16 December 1862 - 8 March 1936) was a British mineralogist. He made great contribution on mineralogical chemistry and petrology, and on meteorites.[2]
He was born in Oxford, England, and he went to Magdalen College there in 1881. He received a first class in the Honour School in Chemistry at 1885 and later in Physics at 1886. Later he went to study in Germany. He obtained his Doctor of Science degree from Oxford University in 1905.
He entered the British Museum in 1887, where he was Keeper of Minerals from 1909 to 1927. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1912.
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