America geophysicist and botanist (1919-1980).
George Clayton Kennedy (22 September 1919 – 18 March 1980) was a professor of geochemistry at UCLA and an amateur botanist with an interest in orchids. Clayton was born in Dillon, Montana, where his parents owned a ranch. He studied at Beaverhead county school before he joined Harvard University where he received a BS, MA and a PhD in mining engineering. He joined the geochemistry department of UCLA in 1953 and worked there until his death. He worked on the melting temperature of rocks in the earth's outer core and proposed some rules that are sometimes termed as Kennedy's law of melting. Base