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PROF. F. W. SHOTTON, of the University of Sheffield, who succeeds Prof. Wills, is a native of Coventry and was educated at Bablake School, gaining an open scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. After graduating, he spent a year on research at Cambridge During 1928–36 he was a lecturer in geology in the University of Birmingham, returning to Cambridge in the latter year as a lecturer. He served in the Army from 1940 to 1945, being geological officer to H.Q. Middle East during 1941–43, and later he served with the Twenty-First Army Group in Normandy and Belgium. After the War he was appointed professor of geology in the University of Sheffield (see Nature, 155, 664 ; 1945).
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Geology at Birmingham: Prof. F. W. Shotton. Nature 164, 96 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164096b0
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