Doug Scott

Doug Scott began his career in sulfide mineralogy with Digger Gorman at the University of Toronto, switched to sulfide synthesis and crystallography under F.G. Smith and Les Nuffield, went on to a doctorate in sulfide crystallography at Queen's University under Len Berry, and finished with a post-doc at Bern, Switzerland under Werner Nowacki. This was followed by a twenty-year career in industrial process mineralogy, much of it as Senior Staff Scientist for Falconbridge. He became involved with The Canadian Mineralogist index in the mid-1980s. He reports that in those days it was hand written on individual file cards, which he sorted and then had typed at the Geological Survey with the assistance of John Jambor. Now it is all done by computer and e-mail, but you still have the same person to blame for any errors.