Ian S. E. Carmichael

Career and research After completing his thesis, Carmichael worked as a lecturer at Imperial College. In 1963, he began a six-month leave to work at the University of Chicago. He applied for more time at the conclusion of his term, but was rejected. Carmichael was invited to give a lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, which led to him starting a tenured position as an associate professor. He remained at Berkeley for the remainder of his career, and retired from the university in 2004.

In 2004, Carmichael was the volume 1 editor of B. J. Wood's Landmark Papers series.

Awards and honours Carmichael was the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions including a special issue of Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology published in his honor in 2013, the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland's 1992 Mineralogical Society–Schlumberger Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship that same year, the Arthur L. Day Medal in 1991, and the in 1986.

Carmichael was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1999, and an honorary fellow of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2004. He was also a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the Mineralogical Society of America, and the American Geophysical Union. The mineral carmichaelite, as well as the Geological Society of America's Carmichael Student Research Grants program, are both named in his honor.