death_date birth_place awards fields workplaces birth_date known_for article_title name alma_mater
15 february 1956 port clinton , ohio william bowie medal -lrb- 1948 -rrb- seismology university of california , saint louis university 28 september 1883 geophysics research , seismology networks , service james b. macelwane
 james b. macelwane saint , 1911 ; m.s. , 1912 -rrb- university of california louis -lrb- ph.d. , 1923 -rrb- university -lrb- b.a , 1910 ; m.a.
james b. macelwane

james b. macelwane , s.j. -lrb- september 28 , 1883 - february 15 , 1956 -rrb- was a pioneering american seismologist .
father macelwane organized the jesuit seismological service , whose central station is in st. louis , missouri and was on the faculty of saint louis university -lrb- slu -rrb- .
macelwane is the namesake of the james b. macelwane medal awarded annually by the american geophysical union -lrb- agu -rrb- and the macelwane fellowship awarded by the american meteorological society -lrb- ams -rrb- .
he served as president of the agu from 1953 until his death in 1956 .
he was elected to the national academy of sciences -lrb- nas -rrb- in 1944 .
the geological division of the slu department of earth and atmospheric sciences is housed in macelwane hall .
