Charles Doolittle Walcott
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican paleontologist and 4th Secretary of the Smithsonian (1850-1927)
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Charles Doolittle Walcott was an American paleontologist, administrator of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to 1927, and the third director of the United States Geological Survey.
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Charles Doolittle Wallcott in 1873
Charles excavating the Burgess Shale (near Field, British Columbia) with his daughter and son, in the quarry which now bears his name
Charles Doolittle Walcott and his family in Provo, Utah, around 1907. Walcott often took his family along on collecting trips. Click on the photo for more information about the Walcotts.
Ottoia, a soft-bodied worm, abundant in the Burgess Shale
The first meeting of the NACA in 1915
Gravesite of Walcott in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C.Awards 5
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Gaylord SimpsonAlso won Mary Clark Thompson Medal
Norman L. BowenAlso won Bigsby Medal
Karl Alfred von ZittelAlso won Hayden Memorial Geological Award
Adolphe-Théodore BrongniartAlso won Wollaston Medal
Alexander FersmanAlso won Wollaston Medal
Alexander KarpinskyAlso won Hayden Memorial Geological AwardAbout this person
Charles Doolittle Walcott was an American paleontologist, administrator of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to 1927, and the third director of the United States Geological Survey. He is famous for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils, including some of the oldest soft-part imprints, in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada.
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United StatesCategory
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1850 to 1927 · aged 76
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