Charles E. Resser
Charles Elmer Resser (born April 28, 1889 in East Berlin , Adams County , Pennsylvania , † September 18, 1943 in Washington, DC ) was an American paleontologist .
Resser went to Pennsylvania State Teachers College , Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster ( Bachelor's degree in 1913), where he became interested in (Cambrian) fossils as a student of H. Justin Roddy, and Princeton University ( Master's degree in 1915 ). In 1917 he received his doctorate from George Washington University . In 1914 he went to the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian) in Washington, DC as assistant to Charles Walcott , the leading expert on the Cambrian . A year later he was Assistant Curator , Assistant Curator in Stratigraphic Paleontology in 1923 , Associate Curator in 1924 and Curator in the same department in 1929. From 1941 until his death he was a curator in the Invertebrate Paleontology and Paleobotany Department . At times he also taught from 1915 to 1932 at George Washington University and at the University of Maryland .
Resser was one of the leading experts on trilobites in his day . He also continued Walcott's research in the Burgess Shale , where he was, among other things, the first descriptor of various species of the genus Tuzoia .
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| SURNAME | Resser, Charles E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Resser, Charles Elmer (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | East Berlin , Adams County , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1943 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |