About William John Sinclair
Lived 1877 – 1935 (aged 57–58). William John Sinclair was an American paleontologist and geologist.
William John Sinclair (1877–1935) was a geologist and vertebrate paleontologist, noteworthy for his collaboration with Walter W. Granger on stratigraphy in New Mexico and Wyoming.
Sinclair received in 1904 his M.S. and Ph.D. from U. C. Berkeley, where John C. Merriam was his doctoral supervisor. After receiving his Ph.D., Sinclair went to Princeton University as a Teaching Fellow and was promoted in 1905 to Instructor in Geology, in 1916 to Assistant Professor, in 1928 to Associate Professor, and in 1930 to Professor.
Sinclair was a protégé of William B. Scott and secured funding for Princeton's William Berryman Scott Fund for research in vertebrate paleontology. Sinclair willed his large petroleum-derived estate to establish Princeton's Sinclair Professorship of Vertebrate Paleontology.
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American paleozoologist (1877-1935)
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William John Sinclair was born in 1877 in San Francisco.
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William John Sinclair died in 1935 in Princeton.
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William John Sinclair was a paleontologist and geologist.
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