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Distinguished Professorship Goes to Teichert
A scientist described by eminent geologists as "one of the outstanding men in this country in stratigraphy and paleontology" has been named Regents Distinguished Professor of Geology at KU.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said:
"I have been empowered by the Board of Regents to announce the appointment of Dr. Curt Teichert, a distinguished international geologist now with the United States Geological Survey, to this significant position. His presence at the University of Kansas will maintain and enhance the pre-eminent position in paleontology built at KU, by Emeritus Prof. Raymond C. Moore and his colleagues."
THE 1963 KANSAS Legislature provided $50,000 to set up the Regents Distinguished Professorships. A second professorship has been filled by a faculty member appointed at Kansas State University.
Prof. Teichert will assist Prof. Moore in a major task of international scholarship begun at the University of Kansas about ten years ago and now more than half completed; the editing of the 24-volume "Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology."
Fourteen volumes of this encyclopedic work have been published to date by the University of Kansas Press and the Geological Society of America.
Dr. Curt Teichert
The task of bringing together the contributions of the world's leading paleontologists has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation totaling about $14-million. In addition to KU and the Geological Society of America, it is being sponsored by the Palaeontographical Society, the Palaeontological Association (Great
Britain) and the Paleontological Society (U.S.)
PROF. TEICHERT HAS been a major contributors to the "Treatise."
Two years ago the University established a Paleontological Institute to prosecute research in the field and to continue the editing of the "Treatise" and the supplements which will keep it current. Prof. Teichert will continue his own major research efforts through the Institute as well as assisting in the development of graduate programs.
Prof. Teichert is credited with inspiring deep devotion among a number of bright Australian paleontologists and geologists, who feel that he was instrumental in shaping their careers during his
teaching days in Australia; and the opportunity to renew his teaching associations with students is a major reason Prof. Teichert gives for accepting the KU position.
"THE UNIVERSITY of Kansas," he said, in addition, "has one of the world's most distinguished records in paleontology. I am honored to the University and its outstanding faculty of teachers and scientists."
He was born in Königsberg, Germany. After having studied in Munich and Freiburg, he earned his doctorate from the University of Königsburg in 1928. He did post-doctoral work at the U.S. National Museum and in 1931-32 spent 16 months as a geologist with an expedition in northeast Greenland.
In 1533, shortly after the Nazis assumed power, he emigrated from Germany, going first to the University of Copenhagen as a research fellow in paleontology and, in 1937, to Australia, where he taught at the University of Western Australia until 1945, served as assistant chief geologist for the Mines Department of Victoria in 1946-47, and taught at the University of Melbourne from 1947-52.
During the winter of 1951-52 Prof. Teichert came to the United States as a Fulbright traveling scholar, where he was a KU research associate, and lectured extensively to societies and university departments across the nation. He returned to the U.S. in 1953 to serve for one year as professor of geology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
EARLY IN 1954 he joined the U.S. Geological Survey, first as head of the Petroleum Geology Laboratory in Denver until 1958,
as research geologist from 1958-61, and since then as geological adviser in the foreign aid program of the Survey in Pakistan, where
he was principal adviser to the Branch of Stratigraphy and Fuels of the Geological Survey of Pakistan.
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