Carl O. Dunbar
Carl Owen Dunbar (born January 1, 1891 in Hallowell , Cherokee County , Kansas , † April 7, 1979 in Dunedin (Florida) ) was an American paleontologist.
life and work
Dunbar grew up on a family farm in Kansas. He studied geology from 1909 at the University of Kansas (Bachelor 1913), including geology with William H. Twenhofel, and received his doctorate in geology from Yale University in 1917 with Charles Schuchert (The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Devonian of Western Tennessee). He was then briefly an instructor at the University of Minnesota .
From 1920 he succeeded Schuchert as a professor at Yale University. Here he stayed for the rest of his career. He was professor and curator of invertebrate paleontology and director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History from 1942 .
In 1959 he retired and moved to Florida where his son lived.
Dunbar was one of the leading paleontologists on invertebrates in his day, specializing in Brachiopods and Fusulinidae (an extinct order of foraminifera ) as well as the Permian Age . He also wrote some textbooks on historical geology that were widely used in his day.
He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1944), the American Philosophical Society (1942) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1950). He was an honorary member of the Mexican Geological Society, a corresponding member of the Geological Society of London and an honorary member of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists (whose Twenhofel Medal he received in 1977). In 1940 he was President of the Paleontological Society and Vice President of the Geological Society of America . In 1967 he received the Paleontological Society Medal .
Fonts
- with Charles Schuchert: Textbook of Geology , Volume 2 (Historical Geology), 4th edition Wiley 1931
- with Charles Schuchert Outlines of historical geology , 4th edition Wiley 1941
- with Charles Schuchert Historical Geology , Wiley 1949, 2nd edition 1960, 3rd edition with KM Waagé 1969
- with John Rodgers Principles of Stratigraphy , Wiley 1957
- The earth , Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1966, German edition Die Erde , Edition Rencontre, Lausanne 1970 (in the series Enzyklopädie der Natur )
literature
- Alexander E. Gates: Earth Scientists from A to Z, Facts on File, 2003
Web links
- Biography at the National Academy of Sciences by John Rodgers 1985, pdf
- Biography at the Peabody Museum at Yale
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary by John Rodgers, Nat. Acad. Sci., See web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dunbar, Carl O. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dunbar, Carl Owen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hallowell , Cherokee County , Kansas |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1979 |
| Place of death | Dunedin (Florida) |