Cecil Edgar Tilley FRS (14 May 1894 - 24 January 1973) was an Australian-British petrologist and geologist. He was born in Unley, Adelaide, the youngest child of John Thomas Edward Tilley, a civil engineer from London, and his wife South Australia-born wife Catherine Jane (née Nicholas). He was educated at Adelaide High School, then studied under William Rowan Browne at the University of Adelaide, and the University of Sydney.

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  • Cecil Edgar Tilley FRS (14 May 1894 - 24 January 1973) was an Australian-British petrologist and geologist. He was born in Unley, Adelaide, the youngest child of John Thomas Edward Tilley, a civil engineer from London, and his wife South Australia-born wife Catherine Jane (née Nicholas). He was educated at Adelaide High School, then studied under William Rowan Browne at the University of Adelaide, and the University of Sydney. He went to England to work in the munitions industry during World War I but returned after the Armistice. He won a Exhibition of 1851 scholarship to Cambridge University in 1919 where he studied under Alfred Harker. Most of the remainder of his career was spent in England, though spent 1938-9 in Australia and visited regularly after the War.
  • Cecil Edgar Tilley est un pétrologiste et géologique australo-britannique.
  • Cecil Edgar Tilley foi um geólogo, petrólogo e mineralogista britânico de origem australiana. Especializou-se no estudo das rochas metamórfricas, principalmente no metamorfismo de contato entre o magma e os gizes ou os sedimentos. A partir dos anos 1950 passou a estudar as rochas ígneas. Foi professor de mineralogia e petrologia em Cambridge de 1931 a 1961. Assumiu como membro da Royal Society em 1938 e foi presidente da Sociedade Geológica de Londres em 1949-1950. Foi laureado com a Medalha Bigsby em 1937 e com a Medalha Wollaston em 1960, ambas pela Sociedade Geológica de Londres. Recebeu também a Medalha real em 1967 pela Royal Society. Um mineral, a tilleyita, foi nomeado em sua homenagem.
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  • Cecil Edgar Tilley FRS (14 May 1894 - 24 January 1973) was an Australian-British petrologist and geologist. He was born in Unley, Adelaide, the youngest child of John Thomas Edward Tilley, a civil engineer from London, and his wife South Australia-born wife Catherine Jane (née Nicholas). He was educated at Adelaide High School, then studied under William Rowan Browne at the University of Adelaide, and the University of Sydney.
  • Cecil Edgar Tilley est un pétrologiste et géologique australo-britannique.
  • Cecil Edgar Tilley foi um geólogo, petrólogo e mineralogista britânico de origem australiana. Especializou-se no estudo das rochas metamórfricas, principalmente no metamorfismo de contato entre o magma e os gizes ou os sedimentos. A partir dos anos 1950 passou a estudar as rochas ígneas. Foi professor de mineralogia e petrologia em Cambridge de 1931 a 1961. Assumiu como membro da Royal Society em 1938 e foi presidente da Sociedade Geológica de Londres em 1949-1950.
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