Edwin Mervyn Patterson

Dr Edward Mervyn Patterson FRSE FRGS FGS FSAScot (1920–1997) was an Irish-born research chemist and geologist. He was President of the Geological Society of Glasgow from 1964 to 1967.

Life

He was born in Northern Ireland on 14 March 1920 the son of John Wilson Patterson, a civil servant, and his wife, Dorothy Mary Ekin. He was educated at Bangor Grammar School. He then studied Chemistry at the University of Belfast graduating BSc in 1941. He immediately began work as a research chemist, specialising in explosives. In 1947 he began lecturing in Geology at St Andrews University. In 1954 he moved to be Plant Manager at Nobel's Explosive Company at Ardeer, North Ayrshire in west Scotland, remaining there until retiring in 1982.[1]

In 1957 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Frederick Walker, Samuel James Shand, Sergei Tomkeieff, Archibald Gordon MacGregor and James Ernest Richey.[2]

He died in 11 April 1997.

Family

He was married to Violet Adams (d.1990).

gollark: You should read the antimemetics division stories.
gollark: Hmm, probably somewhat anomalous, I guess, but boring and uncool.
gollark: Anomalous items should be... actual anomalies not replicable using regular technølogy.
gollark: Still technically doable, though, with batteries.
gollark: Oh, wait, "Unplugging the machine gave the same result."

References
  1. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  2. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.


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