James Steele Williams (1896–1957) was an American

paleontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

and stratigraphist. In 1921, he began working as an Instructor of Geology at the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in ...

, where he remained till 1930 when he got Associate Professor position. The same year he joined

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as assistant, and later even succeeded

George Herbert Girty George Herbert Girty (1869–1939) was an American paleontologist. Biography Girty was educated at Yale University, where he obtained his PhD in 1894. During his postgraduate year at Stanford University in 1895, he was appointed as a paleontol ...

, who was the specialist on late Paleozoic marine fauna. He also worked as a staff for Missouri Bureau of Mines and Geology. He died with a position of Principal Geologist.

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