Jean Milton Berdan
U.S. geologist, paleobiologist and ostracodologist
About Jean Milton Berdan
Lived 1916 – 2004 (aged 88). Jean Milton Berdan was an American geologist, paleobiologist, ostracodologist, paleontologist and scientist.
Jean Milton Berdan (May 19, 1916 – November 16, 2004) was an American geologist.
Biography Berdan was born in 1916. After receiving a bachelor's degree from Vassar College, she received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1949. She joined the United States Geological Survey Water Resource Division in 1942. On the year she graduated from Yale, she got a career in the Paleontology and Stratigraphy Branch of the USGS. She made ostracodes and stratigraphy for Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian periods. She wrote plenty of papers on them, including, USGS Examinations and Reports, filings, notes, and photographs. She died in 2004.
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U.S. geologist, paleobiologist and ostracodologist (1916–2004)
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Jean Milton Berdan was born on 19 May 1916 in New Haven.
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Jean Milton Berdan died on 16 November 2004.
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Jean Milton Berdan was a geologist, paleobiologist, ostracodologist, paleontologist and scientist.
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