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John West Wells
John West Wells
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cause a slowing of the earth's rotation, but it was John Wells who, using only the simplest of equipment, counted the daily growth rings on fossil corals clearly demonstrating the predicted changes in the rotational rate. This one small paper of only three pages spawned a remarkable increase in research studies clearing with the incremental skeletal growth in many groups of invertebrates.
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By this time he had developed an interest in paleontology and Leighton, his mentor at the University of Pittsburgh, suggested he should study biology. As his home was only a few miles from Cornell University, it i became the obvious choice and he attended two summer sessions there to increase his knowledge of biology.
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During 1937-38 Wells taught at the State Normal School at Freclonia, now part of the state university system of New York, but soon left for a position at Ohio State University, where a former Cornell classmate, W Storrs Cole, was on the faculty.
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the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) in 1932, a private research organization clevotec!
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~ _ · T _ 7 _ TO ~ _ ~ From my own association with Wells at Cornell, first as a graduate student in the department en c! then as a member of the summer teaching faculty, I remember countless boxes of coral specimens arriving on a continual basis en c!
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to identify them. Even though the bulk of his work was on corals mainly from Mesozoic to Recent it was his work with some Devonian rugose corals of New York that really caught public attention.
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With a house, "Luck Stone Locige", on Cayuga Lake at Sheldrake, New York, WelIs's small home near Cornell was always vacant cluring the summer. It was not uncommon for him to loan his Ithaca place to a newly appointed professor of prior acquaintance who was waiting for his own dwelling to be readied.
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just John Wells. One clay not long after his election to the National Academy of Sciences he was sorting his mail cluring the slow elevator ascent to the fourth floor of McGraw Hall.
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U.S. Geologic Survey Professional Paper, 260-I, p.
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6:225-56. 1933 Corals of the Cretaceous of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains and western interior of the United States.
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The coral reefs of Arno Atoll, Marshall Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin Number 9.
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4S6 BIOCRAPUICAL MEMOIRS lg? O Problems of annul and dais grown rings in corms.
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