Word: barghoorn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elso S. Barghoorn, who has applied modern techniques of experimental science to the study of fossil plants, has been appointed professor of Botany, Barghoorn was formerly an associate professor of Botany...
...Barghoorn's studies have verified that Indian corn is a native to the New World, not to Asia as previously theorized. He has also applied paleontological research to evaluation of climatic change in North America as deduced from the record of prehistoric plant life...
During the summer of 1954, Barghoorn, with two geologist colleagues, uncovered the oldest coal deposits yet discovered. The age of the coal, pre-Cambrian, is of great geological interest as it carries back the fossil record of plant life to over a billion years...
Professors Elso S. Barghoorn of Harvard and Stanley A. Tyler of the University of Wisconsin announced last week that they had found the oldest fossils so far. In a layer of flint beneath an iron ore deposit in Ontario, they identified two kinds of algae, two of fungi and an organism that they believe may be a calcareous (containing calcium) flagellate. None of them are striking in appearance; they are much like primitive organisms that are still living...
...University botanists concerned with the research include Paul C. Mangelsdorf, professor of Botany; Elso S. Barghoorn, associate professor of Botany; Walton C. Galiuat, a research follow; and Miss Margaret Wolfe of Radcliffe...