Name Alfred Loeblich | Role Author | |
Books Revision of Some Glanduline Nodosariidae (Forminifera) | ||
Alfred R. ("Al") Loeblich Jr (1914–1994) was an American micropaleontologist. He was married to Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich and the two co-authored a number of important works on the Foraminifera and related organisms.
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Biography
Alfred R. Loeblich Jr was born in Birmingham, Alabama on 15 August 1914, and spent his early life in Kansas City, Missouri. He attended the University of Oklahoma and there met Helen Tappan, and they were married in June 1939. After completing his doctorate at the University of Chicago, Loeblich took up a post at Tulane University in New Orleans. Their first child, Alfred R. Loeblich III (who later took a Ph.D. in botany at Scripps Institute), was born in 1941 and married Laurel Ann Loeblich, a botanist also.
Loeblich joined the Army during World War II, becoming captain in the U.S. Army Field Artillery. After the war he worked as a curator in invertebrate paleontology at the United States Museum (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, D.C. and was sponsored by the Smithsonian to study foraminifera in European collections. In 1957 he went to work for the Chevron oil company, and later became adjunct professor at UCLA. Loeblich and Tappan were jointly awarded the Paleontological Society Medal in 1982, and the same year they received the Joseph A. Cushman Award for Excellence in Foraminiferal Research. In 1984 Loeblich was made an Honorary Member of the SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology). In 1987 the AASG (Association of American State Geologists) awarded him the Raymond C. Moore Medal for Excellence in Paleontology. Loeblich was a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, and was described after his death as "one of the giants [of] micropaleontology." He died on 9 September 1994.
Publications
Among the works written by Loeblich and Tappan were: