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Margaret Cameron Cobb was a petroleum geologist. She was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1931.

Education and career

Cobb was born in Lincolnton, North Carolina in 1892. She received an A.B. from North Carolina Normal and Industrial College (now known as the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) in 1912. Cobb taught in schools in Norfolk, Virginia from 1912 until 1914 before moving to Barnard College where she received an A.B. in 1915. From 1915 until 1916 she did graduate studies at Columbia University working with Ida Helen Ogilvie, Charles Peter Berkey, Douglas Wilson Johnson, and Amadeus William Grabau.

Cobb did two fellowship studies at Bryn Mawr College first earning a fellowship in 1916, and then returning for study there from 1919 until 1920. In between she taught at Mount Holyoke College from 1917 until 1919. While at Bryn Mawr, and she worked with Florence Bascom, Thomas Clachar Brown, Malcolm Havers Bisseil, and James Llewellyn Crenshaw. She received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in 1924, and then began work with the Amerada Petroleum Corporation.

Cobb's translation of Elements of Geophysics as Applied to Explorations for Minerals, Oil And Gas was reviewed in Science in 1932.

Cobb died on May 28, 1975.

Selected publications

• Cobb, Margaret C. (1925). "Desilicated genesis of commercial corundum". Pan-Am. Geologist. 43: 257.

Awards and honors

Cobb was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1931, and was in the 1949 edition of American Men of Science.

References

1. ^ Cobb, Margaret Cameron (1924). The origin of corundum associated with dunite in western North Carolina. Bryn Mawr, Pa.: s.n.
2. Alumni News/University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 1974. p. 12.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
3. ^ Barnard College (1925). The Bulletin of the Associate Alumnae of Barnard College. Barnard College. Barnard College. p. 22.
4. The New York Times 1916-05-13: Vol 65 Iss 21,294. 1916-05-13.
5. Bryn Mawr College (1921). Bryn Mawr College Calendar, 1921. Special Collections Bryn Mawr College Library. Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College.
6. ^ American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory. Bowker. 1949. p. 458.
7. College, Mount Holyoke (1917). Annual Report of the President ...
8. ^ "Historic Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
9. "Women enter geology field". The News. 1938-12-07. p. 17. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
10. Ambronn, Richard (1928). Elements of Geophysics as Applied to Explorations for Minerals, Oil and Gas. Translated by Cobb, Margaret C. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Incorporated.
11. Lambert, Walter D. (1932-07-08). "Elements of Geophysics as Applied to Explorations for Minerals, Oils and Gas By Dr. Richard Ambronn, Göttingen. Translated by Margaret C. Cobb, Ph.D., New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co". Science. 76 (1958): 35–36. doi:10.1126/science.76.1958.35.b. ISSN 0036-8075. S2CID 239866183.
12. Barnard College (1975). Barnard Alumnae. Barnard College. Barnard College. p. 23.

• 1892 births
• 1975 deaths
• Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American women geologists
• Barnard College alumni
• Bryn Mawr College alumni