Amadeus Grabau was a great contributor
to systematic paleontology and stratigraphic geology,
and he was also a respected professor and writer. He spent
half of his professional life in the United States and the last
25 years in China. Grabau studied at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and went on to receive his M.S. and D.Sc.
at Harvard. He became a professor in paleontology at
Colombia University. In the first 20 years of his career, he
was the leading scientist in paleontology, stratigraphy, and
sedimentary petrology. The greatest effect of his scientific
work has been his contributions to the principles of paleoecology
and to the genetic aspect of sedimentary paleontology.
His stratigraphic work was influential. Not only did it bring
about a more developed understanding of the subject but it
was the source of understanding Earth movements. The con-
cepts involved in his polar control theory, pulsation theory,
and the separation of Pangea allowed for the imaginative syntheses
of geologic evidence. He received numerous awards
and was a member of the following institutes: the Geological
Society of America, the New York Academy of Science, and
the Geological Society of China. He was also an honorary
member of the Peking Society of Natural History, the China
Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the Academia Sinica, and
the Academia Peipinensis.
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