Doris Livesey Reynolds FRSE FGS was a British geologist, best known for her work on metasomatism in rocks and her role in the "Granite Controversy".
13 Facts About Doris Reynolds
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Doris Reynolds was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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Doris Livesey Reynolds was born on 1 July 1899 in Manchester, to parents Alfred Reynolds and Louisa Livesey.
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Doris Reynolds's parents moved to Manchester from Belfast just before her birth.
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Doris Reynolds taught at University College London after graduating, and then at Queen's University Belfast between 1921 and 1926 as assistant to Arthur Dwerryhouse and John Kaye Charlesworth.
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Doris Reynolds worked with albite-schists, discovering the metasomatic origin of albite, which has a correlation with increases of soda.
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Doris Reynolds work focused on geochemical and structural conditions that contribute to the formation of rocks through metasomatism.
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Doris Reynolds remained fond of Ireland, and travelled there often with her husband during her lifetime.
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Doris Reynolds accepted his offer of a teaching post at Durham, and following the death of Holmes' first wife, they married in 1939.
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When Holmes became Regius Professor of Geology at the University of Edinburgh in 1942, Doris Reynolds became an honorary research fellow.
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Doris Reynolds developed the theory of "granitisation" during the 1940s, in an effort to explain the formation of granite in the Earth's crust.
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Holmes died in 1965 and Doris Reynolds went on to publish the revised third edition of his classic textbook Principles of Physical Geology in 1978.
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Doris Reynolds was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1949, and received the Lyell Medal from the Geological Society of London in 1960.