Scott Turner (engineer)

Scott Turner (July 31, 1880 – July 30, 1972)[1] was an American mining engineer, director of the United States Bureau of Mines, and 18th recipient of the Hoover Medal.[2]

Career

Turner was born in 1880 in Lansing, Michigan, son of James Munroe Porter and Sophie (Scott) Porter. He obtained his AB in geology from the University of Michigan in 1902, and his EM from the Michigan College of Mines, now Michigan Technological University, in 1904.[1]

He started his career as mining engineer, developing mineral deposits in Alaska, Panama, Canada and 14 other countries. For a time he managed the Arctic Coal Company in Spitsbergen (now Svalbard).[3]

In World War I he served in the US Navy, and in 1915 he survived the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.[3] From 1926 to 1934 he was director of the United States Bureau of Mines.[4] In 1932, he served as president of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME).

References
  1. Who was who in America, Volume 5. 1973. p. 735
  2. Hoover Medal Board of Award. Scott Turner: eighteenth Hoover medalist, Nummer 18. 1957
  3. "Scott Turner Collection, 1838-1972". Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  4. Scott Turner (Deceased); AIME President in 1932, aimehq.org. Accessed 2017-09-16.



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