PROFESSOR HAGNI
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the birth of modern geology, Simon Winchester, 2001, Harper Collins.
Adventures in Earth History, selected and introduced by Preston Cloud, 1970, W.H. Freeman; this is a collection of a large number classic papers.
The rejection of continental drift: theory and method in American earth science, Naomi Oreskes, 1999, Oxford University Press.
The road to Jaramillo: critical years of the revolution in earth science, William Glen, 1982, Stanford University Press.
The Seashell on the Mountaintop: a story of science, sainthood, and the humble genius who discovered a new history of the Earth, Alan Cutler, 2003, Dutton.
Member News
The following news story is reprinted from the Missouri University of Science and Technology’s Accomplishments website witten by Velvet Hasner and posted to the web page on December 1, 2020:
https://econnection.mst. edu/2020/12/international-geology-association-honors- hagni/
International Geology Association Honors Hagni
Dr. Dick Hagni is one of five geologists in the U.S. to be named an honorary life member of the International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits (IAGOD).
Hagni is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor emeritus of geology. He retired in 2000 after serving the university for 44 years.
The International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits is the world’s top international professional organi- zation on ore deposits. Through the years, Hagni gave many presentations at the association’s quadrennial meetings, led scientific sessions at several meetings, publishing numerous papers in the association’s Quadrennial Proceedings volumes, and serving as the editor for the 1998 proceedings volume for meeting in Beijing.
Hagni holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in geology from Michigan State University and earned a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Missouri. He taught geology courses at S&T from 1956 until his retirement in 2000. He was named Gulf Oil Professor in 1984 and Curators’ Distinguished Professor of geology in 1999. He served as chair of geology and geophysics from 1985 to 2000 and taught a short course in applied ore microscopy at S&T and abroad in South Africa, Brazil, and Turkey.
Following retirement, Hagni has continued to conduct research, present papers at professional meetings, and publish papers. He has published 24 book chapters and books, 200 papers and given 395 scholarly presentations at geological meetings. He is a member of many professional geological organizations and served for a long time as chair of the Applied Mineralogy Commission of the International Mineralogical Association.
www.aipg.org
Professor Hagni Lectures on the Geological Character of the Mole Hole
Dick Hagni, PhD., CPG-00549
Recently, during an exchange of e-mails, Adam Heft, the incoming editor of The Professional Geologist, said to me that after all my nearly 50 years of college teaching at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (MS&T), I must have some interesting stories to tell. My initial response was that I have published more than 200 papers, but all those were technical in character and would not be suitable for inclusion in The Professional Geologist. Then, I gave some more thought about whether I had something that might be of interest, and I did remember an incident that might be amusing.
When I was lecturing once about the Mohorovicic dis- continuity, the geophysical discontinuity that separates the earth’s continental and oceanic crust from the earth’s mantle, I mentioned the Moho, the abbreviation for the Mohorovicic discontinuity, and the students questioned what I had said. I repeated Moho and wrote “Moho” on the blackboard. The students had thought that I had said “mole hole” instead of “Moho” and the die was cast. The next edition of The Missouri Miner, the weekly univer- sity student newspaper, carried a feature article entitled “Geology Professor Hagni Lectures on the Geological Importance of the Mole Hole.” The article then went on to discuss the geological character, origin, and importance of the mole hole, all things that I purportedly had said in the lecture. The students then came around to my office to ask if I had read that week’s edition of the student newspaper.
I did my best to deflate the student’s pride in their prank by responding that I had not read that week’s edition and that I had never read The Missouri Miner. I guess that it is time now to confess that I did indeed read that edition of The Missouri Miner and that I thought their article was really very clever and especially hilarious.
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