William Whitehead Watts

William Whitehead Watts (7 June 1860 - 30 July 1947) was a British geologist. He was educated at Denstone College, and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, of which he was a fellow in 1888-94, and he was also an extension lecturer of the university in 1882-91. He taught geology at Oxford in 1888, and at Birmingham University from 1897 to 1906,when he accepted the chair of geology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington. Watts served as secretary (1898-1909) and as president (1910-12) of the Geological Society. He edited British Geological Photographs, and published Geology for Beginners (1898). Professor Watts was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1904. He won the Murchison Medal (1915) ^[1] and the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society.