Margaret C. Cobb | |
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Born | Lincolnton, North Carolina | September 17, 1892
Died | May 28, 1975 | (aged 82)
Alma mater | Bryn Mawr College |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | The origin of corundum associated with dunite in Western North Carolina (1924) |
Margaret Cameron Cobb was a petroleum geologist. She was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1931.
Cobb was born in Lincolnton, North Carolina in 1892.[1] She received an A.B. from North Carolina Normal and Industrial College (now known as the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) in 1912.[1][2] Cobb taught in schools in Norfolk, Virginia from 1912 until 1914[1] before moving to Barnard College where she received an A.B. in 1915.[1][3] 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.[1]
Cobb did two fellowship studies at Bryn Mawr College first earning a fellowship in 1916,[4] and then returning for study there from 1919 until 1920.[5] In between she taught at Mount Holyoke College from 1917 until 1919.[6][7] While at Bryn Mawr, and she worked with Florence Bascom, Thomas Clachar Brown, Malcolm Havers Bisseil, and James Llewellyn Crenshaw.[1] She received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in 1924,[3] and then began work with the Amerada Petroleum Corporation.[8][9]
Cobb's translation of Elements of Geophysics as Applied to Explorations for Minerals, Oil And Gas[10] was reviewed in Science in 1932.[11]
Cobb died on May 28, 1975.[12]
Cobb was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1931,[8] and was in the 1949 edition of American Men of Science.[6]