Scott Turner (engineer)
Scott Turner was an American mining engineer, director of the United States Bureau of Mines, and 18th recipient of the Hoover Medal.Career
Turner was born in 1880 in Lansing, Michigan, son of James Munroe Porter and Sophie Porter. He obtained his AB in geology from the University of Michigan in 1902, and his EM from the Michigan College of Mines, now Michigan Technological University, in 1904.
He started his career as mining engineer, developing mineral deposits in Alaska, Panama, Canada and 14 other countries. For a time he managed the Arctic Coal Company in Spitsbergen.
In World War I he served in the US Navy, and in 1915 he survived the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. From 1926 to 1934 he was director of the United States Bureau of Mines. In 1932, he served as president of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers.
