Joseph Augustine Cushman

Joseph Augustine Cushman ( born January 31, 1881 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, † April 16, 1949 in Sharon, Massachusetts ) was an American paleontologist and one of the leading Foraminiferenforscher the 20th century.

Cushman came from Massachusetts, 1903, he received his bachelors degree from Harvard University and then became Curator of the Boston Society of Natural History, 1909, he earned his doctorate at Harvard. In 1912 he began with the United States Geological Survey (USGS ) to cooperate.

In 1923 he resigned from his job at the Boston Society and worked as a freelance consultant for oil companies. In addition, he established his own laboratory, where he continued his research on the foraminifera. Cushman built up one of the most important collections and wrote the textbook Foraminifera, Their Classification and Economic Use and 554 scientific papers. Many of them appeared in the magazine he founded in 1925 Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research, which appears after a name change to the present day as the Journal of Foraminiferal Research. His extensive library and his collection went to his death in 1949 at the National Museum of Natural History, the rest of his heritage manages a foundation that Cushman Foundation.

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• Zoologist
• Paleontologist
• Americans
• Born in 1881
• Died in 1949
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