| LC control no. | n 50030544 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Dunbar, Carl O. (Carl Owen), 1891-1979 |
| Variant(s) | Dunbar, Carl Owen, 1891-1979 Dunbar, C. O. (Carl Owen), 1891-1979 Dunbar, Carl (Carl Owen), 1891-1979 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1891-01-01 |
| Death date | 1979-04-07 |
| Place of birth | Hallowell (Kan.) |
| Field of activity | Paleontology Museums--Curatorship Invertebrates Geology |
| Affiliation | Yale University University of Minnesota Yale University University of Kansas |
| Profession or occupation | Paleontologists Museum curators Geologists College teachers University and college faculty members |
| Found in | His Stratigraphy, 1918. LC data base, 3-3-89 (hdg.: Dunbar, Carl Owen, 1891- ; usage: Carl O. Dunbar) OCLC, Feb. 14, 2007 (hdg.: Dunbar, Carl Owen, 1891- ; usage: Carl O. Dunbar; variant: C.O. Dunbar) Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History website, Feb. 15, 2007: archives (Carl Owen Dunbar; b. 1891 in Hallowell, Kan.; d. 1979; curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the Yale Peabody Museum and the director of the museum after 1942) Wikipedia, viewed Aug. 19, 2022: Carl Owen Dunbar (Carl Owen Dunbar (January 1, 1891 - April 7, 1979) was an American paleontologist who specialized in invertebrate fossils. He was a Professor of Geology at Yale University from 1920 until 1959. He was also Director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University from 1942 until 1959. As editor of a textbook series on historical geology from the 1920s through the 1950s, his work was published and sold in over 1 million books. Dunbar was born 1 January 1891 in Hallowell, Cherokee County, Kansas. He was raised on his grandfather, Warder Dunbar's ranch by his parents David Dunbar (1863-1941) and mother Emma Thomas Dunbar (née McNeil). Dunbar enrolled at the University of Kansas in 1909 and finished his doctorate at Yale University in 1917. His dissertation was entitled, "The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Devonian of Western Tennessee." His doctoral advisor was Yale paleontologist, Charles Schuchert. Between 1918 and 1920, Dunbar taught geology at the University of Minnesota. In 1920, when Charles Schuchert retired from his professorship at Yale University, he recommended Dunbar as his replacement. Dunbar taught at Yale University from 1920 to 1959.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Owen_Dunbar> |
| Associated language | eng |
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