Robert Wallace Webb | |
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| Died | March 4, 1984 (aged 74) |
| Occupation | Professor of geology |
Robert Wallace Webb (November 2, 1909 – March 4, 1984)[1] was a professor of geology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and during World War II was Coordinator of Veterans Affairs for the University of California system. After World War II, Santa Barbara State College became a branch of the University of California and he transferred there in 1948 where he was one of the original professors of earth science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
He was particularly interested in mineralogy and in spite of many different administrative assignments he always returned to the classroom. He loved mentoring students and enjoyed teaching beginning course interesting lower division students to major Geology. He loved the Sierra Nevada where he was in his element.