Hurlbut, Cornelius Searle, Jr.

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HURLBUT, Cornelius Searle, Jr.

HURLBUT, Cornelius Searle, Jr. American, b. 1906. Genres: Earth sciences. Career: Professor of Mineralogy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1940-72; Visiting Professor, Boston College, 1972-78. Publications: (ed.) Minerals and How to Study Them, by E. S. Dana, 1949; (with H. E. Wenden) The Changing Science of Mineralogy, 1964; Minerals and Man, 1968; (with C. Klein) Manual of Mineralogy, 1993; (ed.) The Planet We Live On: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Earth Sciences, 1978; (with R. C. Kammerling) Gemology, 1991. Address: c/o Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.