W. Brian Harland (1917 – 2003) was an eminent geologist at Cambridge University, England. He was born in Scarborough, and educated at Bootham School in York and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated in Geological Sciences and took his PhD; from 1950 until his death he was a fellow of Caius. In Cambridge he was instrumental in the establishment of the Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme (CASP).

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  • W. Brian Harland (1917 – 2003) was an eminent geologist at Cambridge University, England. He was born in Scarborough, and educated at Bootham School in York and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated in Geological Sciences and took his PhD; from 1950 until his death he was a fellow of Caius. In Cambridge he was instrumental in the establishment of the Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme (CASP). He played an important early role in the advocation of the theory of continental drift and making the first observations of the global occurrence of glaciation which were to form the foundations of Snowball Earth theory. He was also a foremost figure in the ongoing maintenance of the International Geologic timescale. He also spent 43 field seasons in the geological mapping of the Polar archipelago of Spitsbergen, beginning in 1938 and lasting through to the 1980s, leading 29 expeditions. The ice field "Harlandisen" on the main island of Svalbard is named in his honour. The University retains a collection of some 70000 specimens collected over these years. Harland spent much of the Second World War teaching at West China University, and later in life would become a trustee of the Needham Research Institute. He was deeply interested in the interactions between science, philosophy, and religion, and for most of his life was a Quaker.
  • Walter Brian Harland was een Engels geoloog. Harland is bekend om zijn onderzoek naar de geologie van het Noordpoolgebied, met name Spitsbergen, en stelde als eerste dat extreme ijstijden plaatsvonden in het Proterozoïcum (ter verklaring is later het zogenaamde Snowball Earthmodel opgesteld).
  • W. Brian Harland (1917 – 2003) foi um eminente geólogo da Universidade de Cambridge, na Inglaterra. Nasceu em Scarborough e frequantou a "Bootham School" em Iorque e o Colégio Gonville & Caius, de Cambridge, onde se licenciou em Ciências Geológicas e fez o seu doutoramento. Desempenhou um papel importante na defesa e divulgação da teoria da deriva continental e fez as primeiras observações da ocurrência de glaciações que viriam a ser os pilares da teoria Terra bola de neve. Foi também uma figura importante na definição da escala de tempo geológico. Mapeou o arquipélago polar de Spitsbergen, de 1938 etá aos anos 1980, liderando 29 expedições. O campo de gelo de "Harlandisen" na ilha principal de Svalbard foi nomeado em sua honra. Harland passou a Segunda Guerra Mundial ensinando na "West China University". Ele interessava-se pelas interações entre ciência, filosofia e religião, tendo sido quaker durante a maior parte da sua vida.
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  • W. Brian Harland (1917 – 2003) was an eminent geologist at Cambridge University, England. He was born in Scarborough, and educated at Bootham School in York and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated in Geological Sciences and took his PhD; from 1950 until his death he was a fellow of Caius. In Cambridge he was instrumental in the establishment of the Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme (CASP).
  • Walter Brian Harland was een Engels geoloog. Harland is bekend om zijn onderzoek naar de geologie van het Noordpoolgebied, met name Spitsbergen, en stelde als eerste dat extreme ijstijden plaatsvonden in het Proterozoïcum (ter verklaring is later het zogenaamde Snowball Earthmodel opgesteld).
  • W. Brian Harland (1917 – 2003) foi um eminente geólogo da Universidade de Cambridge, na Inglaterra. Nasceu em Scarborough e frequantou a "Bootham School" em Iorque e o Colégio Gonville & Caius, de Cambridge, onde se licenciou em Ciências Geológicas e fez o seu doutoramento. Desempenhou um papel importante na defesa e divulgação da teoria da deriva continental e fez as primeiras observações da ocurrência de glaciações que viriam a ser os pilares da teoria Terra bola de neve.
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