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Chester Baker Slawson (April 12, 1898 – March 12, 1964) was a professor of mineralogy at the University of Michigan.

After his death, the Slawson Memorial fund was created at the University of Michigan and in 2004 the first Slawson Fellowship was awarded to a student of the Department of Geological Sciences.

The mineral slawsonite, which has the chemical formula (Sr,Ca)Al
₂Si
₂O
₈ and was described in 1977, was named in his honor.

References

1. Chester B. Slawson Memorial Fund Reaches Goal, Geoscience News, Fall 2005 p.6 Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
2. "Slawsonite: Slawsonite mineral information and data". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 21 May 2018.

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