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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Richard Montgomery Field</b> (* <a href="21._April" title="21. April">21. April</a> <a href="1885" title="1885">1885</a> in <a href="Jamaica_Plain" title="Jamaica Plain">Jamaica Plain</a>, <a href="Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, <a href="Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>; † <a href="17._September" title="17. September">17. September</a> <a href="1961" title="1961">1961</a> in South Duxbury, <a href="Plymouth_County_(Massachusetts)" title="Plymouth County (Massachusetts)">Plymouth County</a>, Massachusetts) war ein <a href="Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">US-amerikanischer</a> <a href="Geologe" title="Geologe">Geologe</a> und <a href="Pal%C3%A4ontologe" class="mw-redirect" title="Paläontologe">Paläontologe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>Field wuchs in Boston auf und besuchte die <a href="Boston_Latin_School" title="Boston Latin School">Boston Latin School</a> und später die <a href="Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>, an der er 1910 den Bachelor-Abschluss in <a href="Geologie" title="Geologie">Geologie</a> und Bergbauingenieurwesen und 1918 seinen Doktortitel in <a href="Pal%C3%A4ontologie" title="Paläontologie">Paläontologie</a> erhielt.
</p><p>Von 1923 bis 1950 lehrte Field am <a href="Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> und war Professor für Geologie an der <a href="Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a>. 1926 organisierte er in Princeton die Summer School of Geology and Natural Resources, einen jährlichen Feldkurs, der Studenten in Techniken der geologischen und geophysikalischen Forschung ausbilden sollte und bis heute existiert.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Von 1932 bis 1941 war Field Vorsitzender des Sonderausschusses für geophysikalische und geologische Studien der Ozeanbecken. Im Jahre 1954 wurde er mit der William-Bowie-Medaille ausgezeichnet. Für viele Jahre war Field Vorsitzender des Internationalen Komitees für den sozialen Wert der Naturwissenschaften im Rahmen der <a href="Internationale_Union_f%C3%BCr_Geod%C3%A4sie_und_Geophysik" title="Internationale Union für Geodäsie und Geophysik">International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Veröffentlichungen_(Auswahl)"><span id="Ver.C3.B6ffentlichungen_.28Auswahl.29"></span>Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl)</h2></div>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/geology0000unse_m9k4">Geology by Richard M. Field</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/outlineofprincip00fiel/mode/2up">An outline of the principles of geology (1934)</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>1954 <a href="William_Bowie_Medal" title="William Bowie Medal">William Bowie Medaille</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/TR035i003p00389">Laudatio zur William Bowie Medal</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://worldacademy.org/charter-members/">Short biography of WAAS charter members</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_290981">Foto von Field beim Smithonian Institution Archives</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/TR043i001p00001"><i>Richard Montgomery Field bei Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union.</i></a><span class="Abrufdatum"> Abgerufen am 27. August 2023</span> (englisch).</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3ARichard+Montgomery+Field&rft.title=Richard+Montgomery+Field+bei+Eos%2C+Transactions+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.description=Richard+Montgomery+Field+bei+Eos%2C+Transactions+American+Geophysical+Union&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fagupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1029%2FTR043i001p00001&rft.language=en"> </span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://geosciences.princeton.edu/about/history/1900-1950"><i>The Department of Geosciences 1900-1930 der Princeton University.</i></a><span class="Abrufdatum"> Abgerufen am 27. August 2023</span> (englisch).</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3ARichard+Montgomery+Field&rft.title=The+Department+of+Geosciences+1900-1930+der+Princeton+University&rft.description=The+Department+of+Geosciences+1900-1930+der+Princeton+University&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fgeosciences.princeton.edu%2Fabout%2Fhistory%2F1900-1950&rft.language=en"> </span></span>
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