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During more than 40 years at Harvard--30 of which he spent as a professor of both biology and geology--Barghoorn earned several awards for his work, including the Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal given by the National Academy of Sciences in 1972. Barghoorn was also Curator of the Paleobotanical Collection at Harvard since...
...Barghoorn earned a Masters in 1938 and a doctorate in 1941 from Harvard...
...until two years ago, when Barghoorn semi-retired, he taught a course on paleobotany, Biology 107, and a graduate seminar on plant evolution...
Knoll said that Barghoorn was "really fabulous" in working with his students on a one-to-one basis. As a group, his former students' achievements in paleobotany "dwarf any comparable list that could be made of anyone else in the same field," Knoll added...
Memorial services at Harvard for Barghoorn have not been set. He is survived by a son. Stephen F. Barghoorn of New York City, and by his brother, Yale Professor Frederick Barghoorn...