Ursula Bailey Marvin died 12 February 2018 in Concord, Massachusetts, at the age of 96. Her scientific work advanced the incorporation within geology of the study of extraterrestrial objects, and she also was distinguished for her achievements as a historian of geology.
Ursula was born 20 August 1921 in Bradford, Vermont, the youngest of three children of Harold Leslie Bailey and Alice M. Bartlett Bailey. Her father was an entomologist who directed programs for plant-pest control for the state of Vermont’s Department of Agriculture. Her mother was a teacher and homemaker. In a 2001 interview she recalled the beauty of...
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