T. Wayland Vaughan
Thomas Wayland Vaughan (born September 20, 1870 in Jonesville , Texas , † January 16, 1952 in Washington, DC ) was an American geologist , marine biologist , paleontologist and oceanographer . He mainly dealt with fossil and recent corals and coral reefs.
Vaughan studied from 1885 at Tulane University , first medicine, then physics. From 1889 he taught physics and chemistry in Mount Lebanon ( Louisiana ), began collecting fossils and published botanical and zoological works. He graduated from Harvard University with a master's degree in biology in 1894 , was Assistant Geologist at the United States Geological Survey from 1894 and received his doctorate in 1903 on fossil corals from the Oligocene and Eocene in the USA. From 1901 to 1914 he was engaged in geological and oceanographic field research in the Caribbean, 1911 in the Panama Canal Zone , 1919 to 1921 in the Dominican Republic and Haiti , 1919 on the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico and from 1907 to 1923 on the Gulf Coast and the Atlantic coast . From 1908 to 1915 he examined the coral reefs in the Bahamas and Florida on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution . In addition to corals, he also examined foraminifera .
In 1917 Vaughan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1923 he was President of the Paleontological Society . From 1924 to 1936 he was director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (which got its current name under his directorship). In 1935 he received the Alexander Agassiz Medal of the National Academy of Sciences , in 1945 the Mary Clark Thompson Medal and in 1946 the Penrose Medal . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, whose oceanography committee he chaired in the 1930s. During this time, he also helped found a counterpart to the East Coast Scripps Institution, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution . In 1939 he was President of the Geological Society of America .
At an advanced age, he began to be interested in the Japanese language and East Asian art, and was also a lecturer in East Asian art. He was received in a private audience by the Japanese Emperor in 1933 and was awarded the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun 3rd class in 1940 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Vaughan Corals and the formation of coral reefs , Smithsonian Report 1917
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| SURNAME | Vaughan, T. Wayland |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vaughan, Thomas Wayland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geologist, marine biologist, and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jonesville , Texas |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th September 1952 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |