Joseph T. Gregory

{{short description|American paleontologist}} {{more citations needed|date=February 2017}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Joseph Tracy Gregory | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|07|28}} | birth_place = [[Eureka, California]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|11|18|1914|07|28}} | death_place = | ethnicity = | field = Paleontology | work_institutions = [[University of California at Berkeley]] | alma_mater = [[University of California]] | doctoral_students = | known_for = Paleontological record of the Western United States | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | prizes = | footnotes = | signature = }}

Dr. '''Joseph Tracy Gregory''' (July 28, 1914 – November 18, 2007) was an American [[paleontology|paleontologist]] and [[professor]].<ref name="SFC" /><ref name="UCMP" />

Joseph Tracy Gregory was born in [[Eureka, California]], the only child of Frank Gregory, a civil engineer, and Edith Tracy, a high school teacher. He grew up in [[Berkeley, California]] and continued with his college education there, graduating from the University of California with an A.B. in 1935, and receiving his doctorate in 1938. During [[World War II]], he served as a lieutenant in the Army Air Forces in the weather service.

==Paleontology== After the war, he became Assistant Professor of [[Geology]] at [[Yale University]], as well as Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the [[Peabody Museum of Natural History]]. In 1960, he moved to the [[University of California at Berkeley]], where he was Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, eventually retiring in 1979 as Emeritus Professor.

[[File:Charts showing the successive appearances of the principal orders of vertebrate life (after Gregory)(GN04104).jpg|thumb|Charts showing the successive appearances of the principal orders of vertebrate life]] He was especially active in researching the paleontological record of the Western United States. In his later career, he gained notice as the primary editor of the annual "Bibliography of Vertebrate Paleontology."

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's [[Joseph T. Gregory Award]] is given annually since 1992 for “contributions to the welfare of Vertebrate Paleontology.”<ref name="SVP" />

==Family== He married Jane Everest in 1949. They had two children, Carl Douglas Gregory (1950- ) and Sarah Jane Gregory (1953-2006).

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="SFC">{{cite web|title=Gregory, Joseph Tracy |url=http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2007%2F11%2F25%2FMNGREGORYJ14.DTL |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=28 July 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520193203/http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2007%2F11%2F25%2FMNGREGORYJ14.DTL |archive-date=20 May 2011 }}</ref> <ref name="SVP">{{cite web|title=Gregory Award|url=http://vertpaleo.org/Awards/Award-(11).aspx|publisher=Society of Vertebrate Paleontology|access-date=28 July 2016|archive-date=18 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818185922/http://vertpaleo.org/Awards/Award-(11).aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> <ref name="UCMP">{{cite web|title=Joseph T. Gregory, 1914–2007|url=https://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/about/ucmpnews/08_01/gregory08_01.php|publisher=University of California Museum of Paleontology|access-date=28 July 2016}}</ref> }}

== External links == *University of California Museum of Paleontology: [https://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/about/ucmpnews/08_01/gregory08_01.php Joseph T. Gregory, 1914–2007]

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