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...surprising first of all that anything was alive that far back," J. William Schopf, Junior Fellow, and co-discover of the fossil along with Elso S. Barghoorn, professor of Botany, said yesterday. "But more important was finding anything so complex as an apparently photosynthetic organism," Schopf added...
...summer of 1965, Schopf found fossilized remnants of bacteria in rock samples that Barghoorn had brought back from Africa. The fossil organisms -- from a Fig Tree formation in eastern Transvaal, South Africa -- were then the oldest form of life known...
...Schopf made the algae discovery in another sample of the Fig Tree rocks about a half year later. The algae was about the same age as the bacteria, but was much more complex, and most startling, apparently lived by photosynthesis...
Barghoorn was assisted in the project by J. William Schopf, a third year graduate student in Biology...
...given the undefeated Yardlings a chance to go stale while their forward line with Register, Spivak, Wallace, and Chen as standouts has given the Varsity defensemen many troublesome moments. HARVARD BROWN Harshman g. Evans Forster rfb. Campbell Merck lfb. Groth Mavor rhb. Classon Ogden chb. Schaller Purluton lhb. Schopf Chun orf. Massare Lazarue irf. Bradley Potter cf. Antone Morse ilf. Ross Corrigan olf. Bellows