Background
Alfred R. Loeblich Junior was born in Birmingham, Alabama on 15 August 1914, and spent his early life in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification
(Studies with the foraminiferida have often been hindered ...)
Studies with the foraminiferida have often been hindered by widely scattered, inaccessible sources. This two-volume reference (text in one volume, plates in the other) examines 3,568 of the world's generic taxa, representing all geologic ages. Covering twice the number of genera as any other available reference, it is by far the most complete source on the foraminiferida. The distinguished authors have assembled vital information on all supraspecific taxa of foraminifera, based on impressive advances made in the last twenty-five years in biology, morphology, and stratigraphy. Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification provides an extensive supragenic classification, updated foraminiferal descriptions, comprehensive coverage of each genus, thorough attention to ultrastructure and internal anatomy, and precise stratigraphic data. Abundantly illustrated and fully explained, this text also features an extensive reference section. This book should be of interest to all those involved in the study of foraminifers.
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Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification by Alfred R. Loeblich Jr. (2013-09-30)
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Studies of Arctic foraminifera (with 24 plates) (Smithsonian miscellaneous collections)
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Alfred Loeblich
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He attended the University of Oklahoma and there met Helen Tappan, and they were married in June 1939. Their first child, Alfred III (who later took a Doctor of Philosophy in botany at Scripps Institute), was born in 1941.
Career
After completing his doctorate at the University of Chicago, Loeblich took up a post at Tulane University in New Orleans. Loeblich joined the Army during World World War II, becoming captain in the United States. Army Field Artillery. After the war he worked as a curator in invertebrate paleontology at the United States Museum (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, District of Columbia and was sponsored by the Smithsonian to study foraminifera in European collections.
Loeblich was a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, and was described after his death as "one of the giants micropaleontology." He died on 9 September 1994.
Achievements
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In 1957 he went to work for the Chevron oil company, and later became adjunct professor at University of California, Los Los Angeles Loeblich and Tappan were jointly awarded the Paleontological Society Medal in 1982, and the same year they received the Joseph A. Cushman Award for Excellence in Foraminiferal Research. In 1987 the AASG (Association of American State Geologists) awarded him the Raymond C. Moore Medal for Excellence in Paleontology.
Works
book
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Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification
(Studies with the foraminiferida have often been hindered ...)
- Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification by Alfred R. Loeblich Jr. (2013-09-30)
- Studies of Arctic foraminifera (with 24 plates) (Smithsonian miscellaneous collections)
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Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification
Membership
In 1984 Loeblich was made an Honorary Member of the SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology).
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American