Mitchell Robert Lyell

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Biografie:
geboren in Edinburgh (Großbritannien)

Robert Lyell Mitchell, PhD, C. Chem, FRSC, FRSE 1910-1982
Bob Mitchell was born in Edinburgh and educated at Bathgate Academy, the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen and the Technische Hochschule in Zürich. His working life was spent at the Macaulay Institute for Soil Science, Aberdeen, where he made major contributions in the analysis of trace elements in soils and their effects on the health of plants and grazing animals, and became Director in 1968.
His work yielded some 90 scientific publications, brought him invitations to lecture in many parts of the world, and earned him the Research Medal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, the Gold Medal of the Society for Analytical Chemistry, and the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
His Alpine experience began while he was in Zurich in 1934 and he had one further season in the Alps in 1938. After the war he climbed in the Alps annually until failing health intervened. Many of his climbs were with the late Hamish McArthur and his wife Millicent and other members of the Cairngorm Club which he served in several capacities. A strong, vigorous, determined but always cheerful climber, his taste in the Alps was for the classic routes on which his technique and judgment were very sound. He was equally at home in the Cairngorms, summer and winter. The list of his climbs in his application for membership of the Alpine Club was more than ample for his election in 1953. After his climbing days were over he still returned to Switzerland to be among the Alps and to renew the friendships he had made there. He was a lively, cultivated and good-humoured companion, on and off a mountain. His death in February 1982 was a deep loss to those who were privileged to have enjoyed his company. He was unmarried.
Frank Solan
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 88, 1983, Seite 257


Geboren am:
1910
Gestorben am:
02.1982