Alfred R. Loeblich

Alfred R. Loeblich Jr (August 15, 1914 – September 9, 1994) was an American micropaleontologist. He was married to Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich and the two co-authored a number of important works on the Foraminifera and related organisms.

Biography Alfred R. Loeblich Jr was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on August 15, 1914, and spent his early life in Kansas City, Missouri. He attended the University of Oklahoma and there met Helen Tappan, and they were married in June 1939. After completing his doctorate at the University of Chicago, Loeblich took up a post at Tulane University in New Orleans. Their first child, Alfred R. Loeblich III (who later took a Ph.D. in botany at Scripps Institute), was born in 1941 and the same year they received the Joseph A. Cushman Award for Excellence in Foraminiferal Research. In 1984 Loeblich was made an Honorary Member of the SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology). In 1987 the AASG (Association of American State Geologists) awarded him the Raymond C. Moore Medal for Excellence in Paleontology. Loeblich was a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, and was described after his death as "one of the giants [of] micropaleontology." The part of Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology (1964) concerned with foraminifera, described in a 1965 review as "a monumental work which will serve as the standard reference for foraminiferologists for decades to come". Foraminiferal genera and their classification (1988) Upwards of 45 journal articles, published in Journal of Paleontology, Micropaleontology and elsewhere.