Ian Stuart Edward Carmichael FRS (29 March 1930 –26 August 2011) was a British-born American igneous petrologist and volcanologist who established extensive quantitative methods for research in the thermodynamics of magma.
Carmichael was born on 29 March 1930 in London,[2] and was raised in the town of Haywards Heath.
He served in Egypt, Palestine, and Sudan for two years before joining the University of Cambridge.
Carmichael was invited to give a lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, which led to him starting a tenured position as an associate professor.
[10] The mineral carmichaelite,[11] as well as the Geological Society of America's Carmichael Student Research Grants program, are both named in his honor.