Thomas Wayland Vaughan (1870–1952)
Autore di Fossil corals from Central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico : with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and recent coral reefs
Opere di Thomas Wayland Vaughan
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1870-09-20
- Data di morte
- 1952-01-16
- Sesso
- male
- Luogo di residenza
- Jonesville, Texas, USA
- Istruzione
- Harvard University (AB, AM, PhD)
- Attività lavorative
- Geologist
Oceanographer
Paleontologist - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Agassiz Medal (1936)
Mary Clark Thompson Medal (1945) - Breve biografia
- Dr. Thomas Wayland Vaughan was a geologist, paleontologist, and oceanographer . Educated at Harvard (AB, AM, PhD), he was an authority on marine sediments, fossil and recent corals, and American Tertiary stratigraphy. He was a researcher with the United States Geological Survey (1894-1939), and then joined the United States National Museum where he served as Custodian of Madreporian Corals (1903–23), an Associate in Marine Sediments (1924-1942), and as an Associate in Paleontology (1942-1952). He was also Director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1924-1936. His research focused on the study of corals and coral reefs, the investigation of larger foraminifera, and oceanography. Under his directorship, Scripps Institute, La Jolla, California, became a leading oceanographical research center.
Utenti
Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Utenti
- 4
- Popolarità
- #1,536,815
- ISBN
- 2