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Andrew Lawson | |
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 Lawson c. 1922 | |
| Born | July 25, 1861 |
| Died | June 16, 1952 (aged 90) |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Known for | Report on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake |
| Awards | Hayden Memorial Geological Award (1935) Penrose Medal (1938) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geology |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Andrew Cowper Lawson[1] (July 25, 1861 – June 16, 1952) was a Scots-born Canadian geologist who became professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the editor and co-author of the 1908 report on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake which became known as the "Lawson Report". He was also the first person to identify and name the San Andreas Fault in 1895, and after the 1906 quake, the first to delineate the entire length of the San Andreas Fault which previously had been noted only in the San Francisco Bay Area. He also named the Franciscan Complex after the Franciscan Order of the Catholic church whose missions used conscripted Native American labor to mine limestone in these areas.
- ^ Vaughan, Francis E. (1970). Andrew C. Lawson: scientist, teacher, philosopher. Glendale, CA: A.H. Clark. ISBN 978-0870620973. OCLC 133498.