| LC control no. | n 79144669 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Olson, Everett C. (Everett Claire), 1910-1993 |
| Variant(s) | Olson, Everett Claire, 1910-1993 |
| Birth date | 1910-11-06 |
| Death date | 1993-11-27 |
| Place of birth | Waupaca (Wis.) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Affiliation | University of Chicago. Department of Geology University of California, Los Angeles |
| Profession or occupation | Zoologists Paleontologists Geologists |
| Found in | The dorsal axial musculature of certain primitive Permian tetrapods , 1936: title page (Everett Claire Olson) The Vale Formation (lower Permian): its vertebrates and paleoecology, 1982: title page (Everett C. Olson) page 1 (University of California at Los Angeles) The Hagen site: a prehistoric village on the lower Yellowstone, 1976: title page (Everett Olson) Invasion of the land: the transitions of organisms from aquatic to terrestrial life , 1994: title page (Everett C. Olson) galley (1910-1993) Wikipedia, October 28, 2014 (Everett C. Olson; American zoologist, paleontologist, and geologist noted for his seminal research of origin and evolution of vertebrate animals; Olson was born November 6, 1910 in Waupaca, Wisconsin and grew up in Hinsdale, Illinois; he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees, including a Ph. D. in geology (1935) from the University of Chicago; he was a former chair of the department of Biology at the UCLA, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a recipient of Paleontological Medal of the Paleontological Society (1987), the first recipient of the Romer-Simpson Medal of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, and a CSEOL Distinguished Scientist (1991); Olson identified a mass extinction that occurred 270 million years ago and which now carries his name--Olson's Extinction; some of his other notable research also included genus of Slaugenhopia, genus of Trimerorhachis, and genus of Waggoneria; he died November 27, 1993) Online Archive of California, October 28, 2014 (Finding Aid for the Everett Claire Olson papers, 1920s-1993; a zoologist, paleontologist and geologist, Dr. Everett C. Olson was born in Wisconsin in 1910; he entered the University of Chicago in 1928, where he majored in geology, received his master's degree in invertebrate paleontology, and completed his doctoral thesis in 1935, working with the foremost vertebrate paleontologist of the day, Alfred Sherwood Romer; Olson taught for many years within the University of Chicago's Department of Geology where he began his long-term field program in the American Southwest, studying Permian vertebrate fossils; in 1969, Olson joined the UCLA faculty where he taught zoology and later served as chair of UCLA's Department of Biology; in 1977 he assumed professor emeritus status and in 1980, he was elected to membership in the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and was awarded the Paleontological Medal of the Paleontological Society) ancestry.com, October 28, 2014 (Everett Claire Olson; born November 6, 1910 in Waupaca, Wisconsin; died November 27, 1993 in Los Angeles, California) |
| Associated language | eng |
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