Adolf Carl Noé

Adolf Carl Noé (born Adolf Carl Noé von Archenegg; 28 October 1873 10 April 1939) was an Austrian-born paleobotanist. He is credited for identifying the first coal ball in the United States in 1922, which renewed interest in them. He also developed a method of peeling coal balls using nitrocellulose. Many of the paleobotanical materials owned by the University of Chicago's Walker Museum were provided by Noé, where he was also a curator of fossil plants. He was also a research associate at the Field Museum of Natural History, where he assisted with their reconstruction of a Carboniferous forest. studying paleobotany under Constantin von Ettingshausen. After Ettinghausen's death, Noé moved to Germany in 1897, having been transferred to the University of Göttingen. While a young man, Noé served briefly in the cavalry as a member of the 8th Austrian Hussars.

He studied there until 1899, when he moved to the United States.

Noé taught at the University of Chicago from the 1910s, continuing his interest in the mounted soldiery as member of the 1st Illinois Cavalry in 1915 and 1916, during which he attended training camps at Fort Sheridan and Plattsburg. where he fulfilled a contract granted by the Soviet government assessing the state of coal production in the region. ) drew the parallel in 1922. There was some disbelief over Noé's discovery. He died on the morning of April 10, five months before his planned retirement date of October 1939.