Maurice Mehl
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- Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Zoology University of Arizona
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Maurice Goldsmith Mehl was an American paleontologist and professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Missouri. Life and career Mehl was born on December 25, 1887, to Frank and Rebecca Goldsmith Mehl. After graduation from Burlingame High School, he attended the University of Chicago, where he completed a B.S. in 1911 and a Ph.D. in 1914. While at Chicago, he met Lucy Jane Hull and they were married in 1912. At Chicago, Mehl studied vertebrate paleontology under the instruction of prominent paleontologist Samuel Wendell Williston. He taught at Chicago for a while as well as at University of Wisconsin, University of Oklahoma, and Denison University before joining the University of Missouri in 1919. In addition to teaching and researching at Missouri until his retirement in 1958, where he was known as "Doc" Mehl, he also worked as a consultant to the Missouri Geological Survey and Water Resources. While at Missouri, he had a long and productive collaboration with his colleague Edward Branson, with whom many discoveries in paleontology were co-authored. Doc was 78 and living in Columbia at the time of his passing and was survived by his wife Lucy, their two children, and three great-grandchildren.
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