Louise Jordan

Louise Jordan (January 3, 1908 – November 22, 1966

Early life and education Massachusetts Institute of Technology: The school Jordan attended when achieving her Masters and Doctorate. Louise Jordan was born on January 3, 1908, in the city of Joplin, Missouri, to Fred A. and Anna Jordan. She attended Port Henry High School in New York, and later continued her education at Wellesley College to achieve a Bachelor of Arts degree in geology and chemistry.

She received a master's degree in Micro-Paleontology at M.I.T. 1931. Upon completion of her master's degree, she taught physics at the American College for Girls in Istanbul, Turkey, before returning to M.I.T. in 1933 to begin work on her doctoral dissertation entitled "A Study of Miocene Foraminifera from Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, and the Republics of Panama, Costa Rica and Haiti" which she completed in 1939.

The upper member of the Lawson Limestone contains a little amount of fossil specimens, and those specimens are poorly preserved. Post teaching, her work took her back to Istanbul to work in the field of mineral research but later coming back to the US to work for Anzac Oil & Gas Inc. in Coleman, Texas from 1938 to 1941. even so far as having her work on Subsurface stratigraphic names becoming a standard resource for Oklahoma geologists. Her work in the petroleum field took her to the University of Oklahoma where she resided until she died in 1966 after authoring over 80 publications in reference mainly to basic geological information for the petroleum industry in Oklahoma.

Legacy Jordan died on November 22, 1966, in Norman, Oklahoma, after a long battle with a disease. She was elected postmortem as an honorary member of the Oklahoma City Geological Society. The impression she left on her friends and family inspired Jordan's brother, Allen E. Jordan and friends to create the "Dr. Louise Jordan Memorial Fund". Allen donated a portion of Louise's estate into the fund designed to help graduate students continue their education and research in geology at the University of Oklahoma.