Edward Oscar Ulrich

Edward Oscar Ulrich ( born February 1, 1857 in Covington, Kentucky, † February 22, 1944 in Washington DC) was an American paleontologist.

Scientific career

Ulrich was already in his youth interest in fossils and collected in the fossil-rich rock layers around his hometown of Covington, Kentucky. He was hired in 1872 at the age of 15 years for two years as a laborer in the construction of the reservoir in Eden Park Cincinnati to casually look there for fossils in the Eden Shales can. He continued his education at German Wallace and Baldwin College in Berea, Ohio, and at the Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati, but received due to its many extracurricular interests in both schools no conclusion. The German Wallace and Baldwin College awarded later in 1886 in the AM and 1892 the Ph.D. for its scientific merits. In 1877 he was, although not finish, yet curator of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. In this time he met Charles Schuchert know, who worked in the joinery of his father, and, like Ulrich was a mostly self-taught educated fossils lovers.

1880 returned Ulrich science for a short time back and was superintendent of the Little Caribou Silver Mines near Boulder, Colorado. In 1883 he returned to Cincinnati and worked there for 14 years as a freelance geologist and paleontologist as well as an illustrator for geological monographs, initially together with Schuchert, then alone, as this 1889 went to the East to Albany under the paleontologist James Hall his own to begin major scientific career. At Ulrich's employers during this period included, among other things, the Geological Surveys (State Geological Surveys ) of Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio and Kentucky. 1897 Ulrich was employed as a geologist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Here he remained until his retirement in 1932. After 1932 he continued until his death as a research associate at the United States National Museum his studies.

Scientific merit and honors

Ulrich was "... the most descriptive paleontologist that America has ever produced. " He was an expert on Paleozoic invertebrates, mainly specializing in bryozoans, ostracods and conodonts. Among his more than 120 publications, the classic work of revision of the Paleozoic system of 1911. Ulrich undertook extensive geological field work in most Paleozoic formations east of the Rocky Mountains, 1922-1931 six research trips to Europe.

In addition to his research, Ulrich was a member of the Geological Society of America, President of the Paleontological Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1932 he was awarded the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America, and in 1930 he received the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.

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