Grabeau, Amadeus William

In 1897, Amadeus William Grabeau graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute . He studied mineralogy with William Crosby .

In 1901, Grabeau married an American author Mary Antin and was appointed professor at Columbia University in New York. In 1907 he had a daughter, Josephine Esther. In 1912 he was elected a member of the Paleontological Society ^[3] . In 1919, Grebo was invited to Peking University .

Part of his life’s work was devoted to the geological mapping of China, so Grabeau became known as the “father of Chinese geology.” He was also the author of more than ten books. Grabo developed several geoscientific theories, including rhythms in the growth of the earth's crust and tectogenesis . In 1925 he was elected a member of Leopoldina . In 1936, for his merits in the field of geology and paleontology, he was awarded the Mary Clark Thompson Medal .

• North American Index Fossils (1909, 1910)
• Principles of Stratigraphy (1913)
• Textbook of Geology (1920–21) 2 volumes
• Silurian Fossils of Yunnan (1920)
• Ordovician Fossils of North China (1921)
• Paleozoic Corals of China (1921)
• Stratigraphy of China (1924-25)
• "Migration of Geosynclines" (1924)
• "Early Permian Fossils of China" (1934)
• "Rhythm of the Ages" (1940)

• Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences of the XVIII-XXI centuries: Geology and mining sciences. / Ed. editor IG Malakhov. M .: GC RAS , 2012. - 504 p. ISBN 978-5-904509-08-8 (e-version).