Exeter College, Oxford

Date:
1922-1931
Reference:
PP/AEM/A.69-108
Part of:
Mourant, Arthur Ernest (1904-1994)
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About this work

Publication/Creation

1922-1931

Physical description

2 boxes

Biographical note

Mourant won a King Charles I Scholarship to Exeter College. He read for the Final Honour School of Natural Science (Chemistry). He passed Part I in 1925 taking crystallography as his special subject. Mourant then studied for Part II under H. L. Bowman, researching the geology of the Channel Islands and on receiving first class honours was elected to a King Charles I Senior Scholarship.

In Michaelmas Term 1926 Mourant won a Burdett-Coutts Scholarship and carried out further research on the geology of the Channel Islands, with particular reference to the petrology of Jersey, under J. A. Douglas. He received his D.Phil. in 1931.

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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