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Sep 27, 1941 Illinois, United States 82 years old
American paleobiologist
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About J. William Schopf
- James William Schopf (born September 27, 1941) is an American paleobiologist and professor of earth sciences at the University of California Los Angeles.
- He is also Director of the Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life, and a member of the Department of Earth and Space Sciences, the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, and the Molecular Biology Institute at UCLA.
- He is most well known for his study of Precambrian prokaryotic life in Australia's Apex chert.
- Schopf has published extensively in the peer reviewed literature about the origins of life on Earth.
- He is the first to discover Precambrian microfossils in stromatolitic sediments of Australia (1965), South Africa (1966), Russia (1977), India (1978), and China (1984).
- He served as NASA's principal investigator of lunar samples during 1969–1974.
