William John Sinclair (1877–1935) was a geologist and vertebrate paleontologist, noteworthy for his collaboration with
Walter W. Granger
Walter Willis Granger (November 7, 1872 – September 6, 1941) was an American vertebrate paleontologist who participated in important fossil explorations in the United States, Egypt, China and Mongolia.
Early life and career
Born in Midd ...
on stratigraphy in New Mexico and Wyoming.
Sinclair received in 1904 his M.S. and Ph.D. from
U. C. Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant univ ...
, where
John C. Merriam
John Campbell Merriam (October 20, 1869 – October 30, 1945) was an American paleontologist, educator, and conservationist. The first vertebrate paleontologist on the West Coast of the United States, he is best known for his taxonomy of ver ...
was his doctoral supervisor. After receiving his Ph.D., Sinclair went to
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
as a Teaching Fellow and was promoted in 1905 to Instructor in Geology, in 1916 to Assistant Professor, in 1928 to Associate Professor, and in 1930 to Professor.
Sinclair was a protégé of
William B. Scott and secured funding for Princeton's William Berryman Scott Fund for research in vertebrate paleontology. Sinclair willed his large petroleum-derived estate to establish Princeton's Sinclair Professorship of Vertebrate Paleontology.
[ The first holder of this professorship was ]Glenn Lowell Jepsen Glenn Lowell "Jep" Jepsen (4 March 1903 – 15 October 1974) was an American paleontologist and professor of vertebrate paleontology at Princeton University. He collected and described many fossil species particularly from the Oligocene of the Badla ...
(1903–1974).
See also
*Bighorn Basin Dinosaur Project
The Bighorn Basin Dinosaur Project (BBDP) is a paleontological research and education group focusing on the Mesozoic ecosystems of the Bighorn Basin in northern Wyoming and southern Montana, U.S.A.
BBDP is headquartered in the Bureau of Natural H ...
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1877 births
1935 deaths
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Princeton University faculty
American paleontologists
American geologists