Leonard Frank Spath

Leonard Frank Spath FRS

Spath Creek on Ellesmere Island is named after him, and indirectly the Spathian substage of the Early Triassic epoch.

Education Spath gained a Bachelor of Science degree in geology at Birkbeck College in 1912 and obtained employment at the British Museum as an assistant curator in the geology department. He undertook two geology field trips, to Tunisia and Newfoundland, around that time which he used as an opportunity to collect fossils. He later gained a Doctor of Science degree from the University of London and was a lecturer in Geology at Birkbeck, University of London.

Awards and honours Spath was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1940,

Spath won the prestigious annual scientific Lyell Medal given by the Geological Society of London in 1945. The Spath Crest, a feature of the Du Toit Nunataks in the Shackleton Range of Antarctic is named after him.