HOPKINS, EVAN ([1801]? - 1888), geologist
Date of birth: [1801]?
Date of death: 1888
Gender: Male
Occupation: geologist
Area of activity: Nature and Agriculture; Science and Mathematics
Author: Robert Thomas Jenkins
Born in Swansea. He spent his youth in the ironworks at Penydarren, Dowlais and Rhymney. In 1833 he went to South America to oversee gold and silver mines; he returned there later to research in the Andes and Panama; in 1852 he was in Australia as an advisor to a gold mining company. He was an expert on magnetic ores.
Author
- Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, (1881 - 1969)
- T. Iorwerth Jones, 'The Contributions of Welshmen to Science', The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1932-3 (which includes a list of his papers)
Sources
- Wikidata: Q20746777
Additional Links
Published date: 2001
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