James Brookes Knight
James Brookes Knight (born July 14, 1888 in St. Louis , Missouri , † March 21, 1960 in Sarasota , Florida ) was an American paleontologist .
Life
Brookes Knight studied geology at Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in 1911, then returned to St. Louis to work in the family business (finance industry), collecting fossils on the side that formed the basis of his master's thesis at the University of Kansas in 1928 formed (via ostracodes from the Pennsylvania near St. Louis). In 1931 he received his doctorate from Yale University . He then spent two years at the Peabody Museum of Natural History as a Sterling Senior Fellow and in 1933 became Assistant Professor of Geology at Occidental College in California. In 1934/35 he studied paleozoic gastropods at European museums with a Penrose Grant from the Geological Society of America and was lecturer and curator for paleozoic invertebrate fossils at Princeton from 1936. In the 1930s he was involved in several campaigns for the US Geological Survey under Philip B. King to excavate in the Permian of Texas. From 1945 he was a Research Associate in paleontology at the National Museum of Natural History , which he stayed until his retirement in 1956. He worked there on the Paleozoic gastropods.
He was involved in the Gastropod Volume of Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology and the section on Paleozoic Gastropods of Index Fossils of North America (1944).
In 1946 he was President of the Paleontological Society .
literature
- Obituary in Journal of Molluscan Studies, 34, 1960, pp. 55-59
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| SURNAME | Knight, James Brookes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Louis , Missouri |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 1960 |
| Place of death | Sarasota , Florida |