Biographic Sketch
Arthur David Wadsley (1918-1969) received the privilege of getting a mineral named after him due his contributions to geology such as the crystallography of minerals and other inorganic compounds.(Price, Putnis, Agrell and Smith, 1983) The proposal to have wadsleyite named after Wadsley was approved by the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names of the International Mineralogical Association.(Price, Putnis, Agrell and Smith, 1983) The type specimen is now preserved in the collection of the Department of Geology at the University of Alberta.
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