Thomas Sergeant Hall

Thomas Sergeant Hall (23 Disamba 1858 - 21 Disamba 1915) masanin ilimin ƙasa ne kuma masanin ilmin halittu na Australiya, kuma ya karɓi Asusun Murchison a 1901.

 Rayuwar farko 
An haifi Hall a Geelong, ɗan Thomas March Hall, ɗan kasuwa wanda asalinsa daga Lincolnshire, Ingila da Elizabeth, wanda aka haifa a matsayin Walshe, daga Dublin. Hall ya yi karatu a Makarantar Grammar Geelong inda ya kasance ƙarƙashin tasirin James L. Cuthbertson. Ya yi karatun digiri na biyu a Kwalejin Wesley a 1879-80, sannan ya yi Kwalejin Hawthorn sannan ya je Jami'ar Melbourne, inda ya yi digirinsa na farko a fannin kimiyyar halitta a 1886. Wannan ya haɗa da aikin ilimin halittu a ƙarƙashin Sir Frederick McCoy. Hall ya koyar na shekara guda a Kwalejin Girton, Sandhurst (yanzu Bendigo ) a 1887, amma ya koma jami'a kuma ya yi kwas na shekaru uku a fannin ilmin halitta a ƙarƙashin Farfesa Sir Baldwin Spencer.

 Sana'a 
Hall ya taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen kafa ƙungiyar kimiyyar jami'a, kuma ta hanyarta ya haɗu da Dr. GB Pritchard wanda daga baya ya yi aiki mai mahimmanci a fannin ilimin ƙasa. Hall ya kasance darakta mai nasara a makarantar ma'adinai ta Castlemaine daga 1890 zuwa 1893, kuma a shekarar da ta gabata ya zama malami a fannin ilmin halittu a jami'ar Melbourne. Hall ya riƙe wannan muƙamin har zuwa mutuwarsa amma ya sami lokaci don wasu ayyuka da yawa.

A shekara ta 1899, Hall ya buga wani kundin littattafai na Littattafan Kimiyya da Fasaha na Lokaci-lokaci a cikin Dakunan Karatu na Victoria . Bugu na biyu kuma mai girma, wanda Mista ER Pitt na ɗakin karatu na jama'a, Melbourne, ya taimaka masa, ya fito a shekara ta 1911. Ya yi ayyuka masu mahimmanci ga Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (shugaban ƙasa 1901-1903), Royal Society of Victoria, da kuma Australian da New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science . Fim ɗinsa na Victorian Hill and Dale (1909), wanda ke bayyana ilimin ƙasa na ƙasar da ke kewaye da Melbourne, littafi ne na kimiyya mai shahara, wanda aka rubuta ba tare da wata alamar kalmomi na kimiyya ba; akwai kalma ta fasaha a cikin shafuka 150 kawai. Bai rubuta takardu da yawa ba, amma aikinsa akan duwatsun graptolite na Victoria ya sa aka naɗa shi wanda ya karɓi Asusun Murchison na Ƙungiyar Geological ta London a shekara ta 1901. Ɗaya daga cikin manyan abubuwan da ya gano shi ne mabuɗin buɗe jerin Ordovician mai rikitarwa.

 Iyali 
Ya auri Miss Eva Lucie Annie Hill a ranar 21 ga Disamba 1891, wacce ta tsira daga gare shi tare da 'ya'ya maza uku da 'ya mace ɗaya.

 Gado 
Hall ya yi rashin lafiya a farkon shekarar 1915, amma ya ci gaba da aikinsa har zuwa lokacin da ya mutu sakamakon ciwon nephritis mai tsanani a ranar 21 ga Disamba, 1915. Jami'ar Melbourne ta ba shi digirin girmamawa na D.Sc. a shekarar 1908. Aikin Hall tare da Dr. Pritchard kan manyan sassan burbushin halittu na Victoria, da kuma aikinsa kan duwatsun graptolite na Victoria ya ba shi matsayi na dindindin a tarihin ilimin ƙasa na Australiya.

 Manazarta 


 Thomas A. Darragh, 'Hall, Thomas Sergeant (1858 - 1915)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, MUP, 1983, pp 166–167. Retrieved 20 January 2009
Rukuni:Matattun 1915