William Berryman Scott
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1858 – 1947
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Who was William Berryman Scott?
William Berryman Scott was an American vertebrate paleontologist, authority on mammals, and principal author of the White River Oligocene monographs. He was a professor of geology and paleontology at Princeton University.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he graduated from Princeton University in 1877 and received a Ph.D. from University of Heidelberg in 1880. He married Alice Adeline Post on December 15, 1883. Scott served as president of The Geological Society of America in 1925.
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- Born
- Feb 12, 1858
Cincinnati - Education
- Princeton University
- Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg
- Lived in
- Cincinnati
- Died
- Mar 29, 1947
Princeton
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on July 23, 2013
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