Knopf, Eleanora Bliss (1883–1974)
Knopf, Eleanora Bliss (1883–1974)
American geologist. Name variations: Eleanora Frances Bliss; Eleanora Knopf or Eleanora Frances Bliss Knopf. Born Eleanora Frances Bliss, July 15, 1883, in Rosemont, PA; died Jan 21, 1974, in Menlo Park, CA; dau. of Tasker Howard Bliss and Eleanora Emma (Anderson) Bliss; m. Adolph Knopf (geologist), 1920 (died 1966).
Was assistant curator at Bryn Mawr College's Geological Museum and demonstrator at geological laboratory (1904–09); joined US Geological Survey (USGS) as geologic aide in Washington, DC (1912), being promoted to assistant geologist (1917), and working as geologist on important assignments (1920–55); announced discovery of 1st American sighting of mineral glaucophane east of Pacific coast, in PA (1913); worked for USGS on metamorphic rocks in NY and CT and on Stissing Mountain (beginning 1925); was visiting lecturer at Yale and Harvard universities (1930s); wrote Structural Petrology (1938); held appointments at Geological Society of America; at National Research Council, was chair of committee on experimental deformation of rocks (1945–49) and on glossary on structural petrology (1951–53); was research associate at Stanford University's geology department (beginning 1951).