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Weir, J. Donald
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J. Donald Weir, 1914-2005, was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He studied geology at the University of Saskatchewan, Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar) and Harvard, graduating with a PhD from Oxford in 1943. He was employed by California Standard (Chevron), the University of Saskatchewan, Stanford University, and UNESCO. He and his wife Marje, ?-1996, had two children, Jan and Jace.