Roland Wilbur Brown

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Roland Wilbur Brown (born May 12, 1893 in Weatherly, Pennsylvania , † December 21, 1961 ) was an American paleobotanist and stratigraph . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ RWBr. ".

Brown received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1961 and was a paleontologist and geologist at the US Geological Survey from 1928 until his retirement in 1958 . He was also from 1951 Research Associate in the Geology Department of the Smithsonian Institution (United States National Museum).

He dealt with fossil plants of the Mesozoic and Tertiary in North America.

Fonts

  • Palaeocene Flora of the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains, US Geological Survey Professional Paper 375, Washington DC 1961

literature

  • Sergius Mamay, obituary in Bulletin Geolog. Soc. America Vol 74, 1963, P79-P84

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personal data
SURNAME Brown, Roland Wilbur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleobotanist and stratigraph
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Weatherly (Pennsylvania)
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1961