Samuel Wendell Williston, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Samuel Wendell Williston

American paleontologist

Date of Birth: 10-Jul-1851

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 30-Aug-1918

Profession: zoologist, illustrator, university teacher, paleontologist, entomologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Samuel Wendell Williston (July 10, 1851 – August 30, 1918) was an American educator, entomologist, and paleontologist who was the first to propose that birds developed flight cursorially (by running), rather than arboreally (by leaping from tree to tree).
He was a specialist on the flies, Diptera. He is remembered for Williston's law, which states that parts in an organism, such as arthropod limbs, become reduced in number and specialized in function through evolutionary history.