Carl Owen Dunbar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carl Owen Dunbar

American paleontologist

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1891

Place of Birth: Cherokee County, Kansas, United States

Date of Death: 07-Apr-1979

Profession: geologist, paleontologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Carl Owen Dunbar (January 1, 1891 – April 7, 1979) was an American paleontologist who specialized in invertebrate fossils.
He was a Professor of Geology at Yale University from 1920 until 1959.
He was also Director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University from 1942 until 1959.
As editor of a textbook series on historical geology from the 1920s through the 1950s, his work was published and sold in over 1 million books.