Joseph Granville Norwood
Joseph Granville Norwood (born December 20, 1807 in Woodford County , Kentucky , † May 6, 1895 in Columbia , Missouri ) was an American doctor, paleontologist and geologist . He was the state geologist of Illinois and Missouri and later a professor of medicine and first dean of the medical school at the University of Missouri at Columbia.
Life
Norwood started out as a bank clerk, printer, and newspaper owner. In 1830 he sold his shares and began to study medicine at Transylvania Medical College in Lexington (Kentucky) with a degree (MD) in 1836. He practiced as a doctor in Kentucky and was professor of surgery at the newly formed Madison Medical Institute in Indiana in 1840 and 1843 to 1847 professor at St. Louis University. His natural science inclinations led him to 1847 assistant to David Dale Owen in the geological survey of Wisconsin , Iowa and Minnesota , where he worked mainly near Lake Superior . From 1851 to 1858 he was Illinois' first state geologist . 1858 to 1860 he was Assistant Geologist in Missouri and from 1860 professor of geology and chemistry at the University of Missouri . He also taught physics, anatomy and physiology and was the dean of the medical faculty for several years. Even when the university was closed during the civil war, he regularly came to his place of work to watch over university property (troops were stationed there). In 1871 he was briefed as a Missouri State Geologist to fill a vacancy. In 1880 he gave up his professorship for health reasons.
He was married twice. From his first marriage he had two sons and a daughter, from his second marriage he had three sons and five daughters. His son Charles J. Norwood became a Kentucky State Geologist. Norwood was a Freemason.
In 1841 he published a new edition of Buchan's family doctor book and in 1838 an Outline of a course of lectures at the Institutes of Medicine in Lexington (Kentucky) .
In 1846 he and Owen first described the Placodermi genus Macropetalichthys from the Devonian.
literature
- Clark Kimberling: David Dale Owen and Joseph Granville Norwood: Pioneer Geologists in Indiana and Illinois , Indiana Magazine of History, Volume 92, 1996
- GC Broadhead: Joseph Granville Norwood, The American Geologist, Volume 16, 1895, pp. 69-74
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Norwood, Joseph Granville |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physician, paleontologist, and geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Woodford County , Kentucky |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 1895 |
| Place of death | Columbia , Missouri |