Cecil Madigan

Cecil Thomas Madigan (15 ga Oktoba 1889 - 14 ga Janairu 1947) masanin ilimin ƙasa ne na Australiya, mai bincike, masanin kimiyya, mai binciken jirgin sama, masanin yanayi, marubuci, kuma jami'in soja. 

 Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi 
An haifi Cecil Thomas Madigan a Renmark, Kudancin Ostiraliya, ga dan kwangila da mai shuka 'ya'yan itace Thomas Madigan da Mary Dixie (née Finey) malami. Cecil ita ce babba a cikin 'ya'ya maza biyu da mata biyu. Mahaifiyarsa ce ta haife shi, saboda mahaifinsa ya mutu a Kalgoorlie, Yammacin Australia Goldfields. 

Ya halarci Kwalejin Prince Alfred a Adelaide, sannan kuma Jami'ar Adelaide. Ya kammala karatu tare da BSc a aikin injiniya na hakar ma'adinai.

Madigan ya sami Rhodes Scholarship a 1911 don nazarin ilimin ƙasa a Oxford" id="mwJg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Magdalen College, Oxford">Kwalejin Magdalen, Oxford, amma ya jinkirta nadin yayin da Sir Douglas Mawson ya gayyace shi ya tafi a matsayin masanin yanayi a kan Australasian Antarctic Expedition.

Bayan ya yi aiki a yakin duniya na, ya koma Kwalejin Magdalen, inda ya sami B.A. a 1919, MA a 1922, kuma daga baya, D.Sc. a cikin 1933. Ya lashe lambar yabo ta farko a fannin ilimin ƙasa kuma ya lashe blues a cikin jirgin ruwa da dambe.

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 Tafiyar Australasia ta Antarctic 
A watan Disamba na shekara ta 1911 jam'iyyar ta bar Hobart a cikin jirgin SY Aurora . A watan Janairun 1912 sun isa Commonwealth Bay a Adélie Land, Antarctica, inda suka kafa tarin gine-gine da aka sani da Mawson's Huts. Daga can ya jagoranci balaguro da yawa zuwa yankunan da ba a sani ba na Adélie Land da George V Land. Wadannan tafiye-tafiye sun tattara muhimman bayanai game da kasancewar kwal a Antarctica.

 WWI 
Madigan daga baya ya yi aiki tare da Royal Engineers a Faransa a lokacin yakin duniya na farko. Ya ga aiki a Yaƙin Loos inda ya ji rauni, da kuma Yaƙin Somme .

 Ayyukan ilimin ƙasa a Ostiraliya 
Bayan ya dawo Ostiraliya, an nada Madigan a matsayin malami a fannin ilimin ƙasa a Jami'ar Adelaide a 1922, mukamin da ya rike har zuwa mutuwarsa, kuma ya ci gaba da abokantaka da Mawson, [1] wanda aka nada shi farfesa a fannin ilmin ƙasa bayan ritaya na Walter Howchin a 1920. Mawson da Madigan, tare da ɗaliban su a jami'ar, sun yi muhimman ƙari ga ilimin ƙasa, musamman fahimtar Cambrian. A cikin shekarun 1920, Madigan ya gudanar da bincike mai zurfi da taswirar Cambrian a kan Yankin Fleurieu, kuma ya tabbatar da cewa an karkatar da wannan ɓangaren bakin teku. Reg Sprigg daga baya ya ba Madigan takamaiman yabo ga aikinsa na farko a kan Cambrian.[2]

A cikin shekarun 1930, Madigan ya shiga cikin binciken sama da yawa na "yanki marasa hanya" na Tsakiyar Ostiraliya, a lokacin da ya ba da sunan Simpson Desert bayan Alfred Allen Simpson, shugaban reshen Kudancin Australia na Royal Geographical Society of Australasia.  

A shekara ta 1937 ya tabbatar da cewa crater na Boxhole wani crater ne na tasirin meteoric. A shekara ta 1939 ya jagoranci babban balaguro na farko a fadin Simpson Desert . Kodayake ba shi ne na farko da ya haye hamada ba, ya zama sananne a matsayin na karshe na masu binciken "na gargajiya" na tsakiyar Ostiraliya.L. W. Parkin, Madigan, Cecil Thomas (1889 - 1947), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, Melbourne University Press, 1986, pp 374-376. Retrieved 2008-10-10.

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