Cecil Edgar Tilley

Cecil Edgar Tilley FRS, Hon FRSE, PGS (14 ga Mayu 1894 - 24 ga Janairu 1973) masanin ilimin petrologist ne kuma masanin ilimin ƙasa na Australiya-Birtaniya.

 Rayuwa 
An haife shi a Unley, Adelaide, ƙaramin ɗan John Thomas Edward Tilley, injiniyan farar hula daga Landan, da matarsa da aka haifa a Kudancin Australia, Catherine Jane Nicholas.

Cecil ta yi karatu a Makarantar Sakandare ta Adelaide, sannan ta yi karatun ilmin sunadarai da ilimin ƙasa a ƙarƙashin William Rowan Browne a Jami'ar Adelaide, da Jami'ar Sydney, ta kammala a 1915. A shekara ta 1916, a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na farko, ya tafi Kudancin Queensferry kusa da Edinburgh a Scotland don yin aiki a matsayin likitan Sashen Sayar da Fashewa. Ya koma Ostiraliya a watan Disamba na shekara ta 1918.

Ya lashe kyautar baje kolin shekara ta 1851 a Jami'ar Cambridge a 1919, inda ya yi karatun ilimin petrology a karkashin Alfred Harker, kuma ya kammala digirinsa na PhD a 1922. Daga 1923 ya yi aiki a Jami'ar Cambridge, da farko a matsayin mai nunawa a fannin ilimin petrology, sannan kuma malami a fannin kimiyyar petrology a 1929. A shekara ta 1931, bayan ritaya na Harker, an nada shi a matsayin Farfesa na farko na Mineralogy da Petrology. Yawancin sauran rayuwarsa ya kasance a Ingila, kodayake ya shafe 1938-9 a Ostiraliya kuma ya ziyarci a kai a kai bayan Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu. 

A cikin 1929, yayin da yake binciken wani dutsen wuta a Scawt Hill, kusa da Larne, Arewacin Ireland don Mineralogical Magazine ya gano kuma ya ba da sunan sabbin ma'adanai larnite da scawtite.

A shekara ta 1938 an zabe shi Fellow na Royal Society na London kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin Mataimakin Shugaban su 1949/50. Ya lashe lambar yabo ta Royal a shekarar 1967.

Daga 1948 zuwa 1951 ya kasance Shugaban Mineralogical Society of Great Britain . Ya kasance Shugaban Geological Society 1949/50. An zabe shi a matsayin mai girmamawa na Royal Society na Edinburgh a shekara ta 1957. 

Ya mutu a gida a Cambridge a ranar 24 ga Janairun 1973 yana da shekaru 78, kuma an ƙone jikinsa.

 Iyali 
A shekara ta 1928 ya auri Irene Doris Marshall a Ikilisiyar Triniti Mai Tsarki, Kingsway, London.

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 1973