Arthur Francis Buddington

He also had a long career with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), doing field work for that agency in Alaska, Oregon, and the northeastern United States.

His parents' families had been in Connecticut since the 1600s, and he was descended from men who fought for the United States in the American Revolution.

[1][3] Arthur Buddington was educated in public schools of Wilmington, Mystic, and Westerly, Rhode Island.

In early 1918, with World War I raging, he returned to Princeton to teach military aerial observation in its aviation ground school.

[1] He trained briefly as an aerial observer and photo interpreter before being reassigned to the Chemical Warfare Service, where he did research under Richard C.

Later that year he joined the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C.[1] In 1920 Buddington was appointed assistant professor at Princeton, where he remained until retiring in 1959.

As chair of the Department of Geology from 1936 to 1950, he built Princeton's reputation in petrology and studies of ore in addition to its traditional strength in paleontology.

This large collaboration produced some important scientific results and identified several economically compelling ore deposits.

[1] Buddington held honorary degrees from Brown, Franklin and Marshall College, and the University of Liège.

[1] During his time at the Geophysical Laboratory, Buddington met Jene Elizabeth Muntz, originally of David City, Nebraska.