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Arthur Francis "Bud" Buddington〔Harold L. James. (Arthur Francis Buddington, 1890–1980 ). National Academy of Sciences, 1987. Accessed Feb. 11, 2014.〕〔B. F. Leonard. (Memorial of A. F. Buddington ). ''American Mineralogist'' Vol. 7, 1986, pp. 1268–73. Accessed Feb. 12, 2014.〕 (November 29, 1890 – December 25, 1980) was an American geologist. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, he grew up there and in West Mystic, Connecticut. He was educated at Brown University and Princeton University. After short stints teaching at Brown and Princeton, serving in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I, and researching at the Carnegie Institution for Science, Buddington settled at Princeton, where he taught for nearly 40 years. He chaired the Department of Geology from 1936 to 1950. He also had a long career with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), doing field work for that agency in Alaska, Oregon, and the northeastern United States. Buddington was elected to the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His years of work for the USGS earned him the Distinguished Service award of the U.S. Department of the Interior. ==Early life and education== Buddington was born November 29, 1890, in Wilmington, Delaware, to Mary Salina Buddington (''née'' Wheeler) and Osmer G. Buddington. His parents' families had been in Connecticut since the 1600s, and he was descended from men who fought for the United States in the American Revolution. His father was a Baptist minister who supplemented his income by farming crops and raising chickens.〔 In 1895 his mother died; his father later married Ella Turner.〔 In 1904 the family relocated to West Mystic, Connecticut, where the father became the minister at a church in nearby Poquonock Bridge, Connecticut.〔〔Brown University. ''The Catalogue of Brown University, 1912–1913'', p. 196.〕 Arthur Buddington was educated in public schools of Wilmington, Mystic, and Westerly, Rhode Island. In 1908 he graduated from Westerly High School. He then matriculated at Brown University. After an unpleasant year in the liberal arts program, he switched to the sciences. He graduated second in his class in 1912〔 with a bachelor's degree in geology, chemistry, and physics.〔 He was also elected to Sigma Xi in 1912.〔Brown ''Catalogue'', p. 251.〕 After graduating Buddington remained at Brown to earn a master of science degree in 1913, writing a master's thesis on fossiliferous Carboniferous shales that had recently been discovered on College Hill,〔 on which Brown is situated.〔Brown University. (Exploring Providence — College Hill and beyond ). Accessed Feb. 11, 2014.〕 That same year he enrolled in graduate school at Princeton University to study under Charles Henry Smyth, Jr., who was doing some of the first work in chemical petrology (using chemistry to study ordinary rocks rather than minerals) in the United States. Buddington earned his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1916.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur Francis Buddington」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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