Willet Green Miller FRSC was a Canadian geologist and professor of Geology and Petrography (1893)

Career

Birth in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada in 1866.

Willet Green Miller

Educated at Port Rowan High School.

Willet Green Miller

Graduated from the University of Toronto in 1890 in Natural Science. Post-graduate work at Harvard, Chicago, and Heidelberg Universities in mapping for the Geological Survey.

Willet Green Miller

Professor of Geology and Petrography of the Queen's University at Kingston in 1893.

Miller became the first provincial geologist for the province of Ontario in 1902.

Achievements

He was the first to recognize the importance of the discoveries in Cobalt, at a time when no precious metals were being mined in northern Ontario.

Honors

Gold medal from the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy of London in 1915.

Memory

Willet G. Miller Medal has been established in his honor in 1941.

Miller Hall is named after Willet Green Miller in Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario.

References

1867 births

1925 deaths

People from Norfolk County, Ontario

Canadian geologists

Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada