美国孢粉学家William Spackman Jr. 1919年出生于芝加哥（Chicago, Illinois），2014年病逝于Wilmington（North Carolina），享年94岁。

   1949年，William Spackman Jr.毕业于哈佛大学生物系，获博士学位，导师为古植物学家Elso Sterrenberg Barghoorn Jr.(NAS, 1915--1984)。

   William Spackman Jr.博士毕业后供职于Pennsylvania State University地质与地球物理系，1988年退休。

∮1 教育背景

1940: Associate of arts degree, North Park College inChicago;

1942: Bachelor's degree in botany, University of Illinois

1949: PhD inbiology with a major in paleobotany from Harvard University.

   William Spackman Jr. 哈佛大学生物系完成的博士论文主要研究产自佛蒙特州(Vermont) Brandon地区的褐煤（lignite）中的植物化石，基本信息如下：

• Title: The flora of the Brandon lignite; geological aspects and a comparison of the flora with its modern  equivalents.

• Author  / Creator:Spackman, William,     Jr.

• Language:     English

• Notes:     Submitted to:     Dept. of Biology.
  Thesis note: Ph. D. Harvard University 1949

• Creation     Date: 1949

• HOLLIS     Number: 003962782

• Permalink:     http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/003962782/catalog

• Source:     HVD ALEPH

∮2 研究领域

古植物学、孢粉学与煤岩学（paleobotany, palynology &coal petrology）

∮3 部分论著

   William Spackman Jr.与Gerhard Otto Wilhelm Kremp（1913—1994）等合作，编辑了43册《化石孢子和花粉目录》（Catalog of Fossil Spores and Pollen），非常实用。

A dicotyledonous wood found associated with the IdahoTempskyas

W Spackman - Annals of the MissouriBotanical Garden, 1948 - JSTOR

A preliminarystudy of the flora of the Brandon lignite [Vermont]

ES Barghoorn, W Spackman - AmericanJournal of Science, 1949 - ajsonline.org [ Am. J. Sci., 247 (1949), pp. 33–39]

Geological and botanical study of the Brandon lignite andits significance in coal petrology [Vermont]

ES Barghoorn, W Spackman - EconomicGeology, 1950 - economicgeology.org

Coalification of woody tissue as deduced froma petrographic study of Brandon lignite

W SPACKMAN, ES BARGHOORN – 1966

Spackman,W., A.D. Cohen, P.H. Given, and D.J. Casagrande, 1974, A Fieldguide to Aid inthe Comparative Study of the Okefenokee Swamp and the Everglades-MangroveSwamp-Marsh Complex of Southern Florida: Geological Society of Americapreconvention field trip #6, 265 p.

History of applied coal petrology in the United States:II. A personalized history of the origin and development of applied coalpetrology at the Pennsylvania State …

W Spackman - International journalof coal geology, 2000 - Elsevier

∮4 学术任职

1956年，William Spackman Jr.担任美国植物学会古植物学分会会长（Chair of the Paleobotanical Section of the Botanical Society of America）；

1980年，担任《国际煤田地质学》第一任主编（founding editor of the first research journal devoted to coal geology, the International Journal of Coal Geology）。

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孙启高2015年5月2日整理

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参见：

Obituary for Dr. William Spackman (1919–2014)International Journal of Coal Geology

Volumes 128–129, 1August 2014, Pages165-167

Frederick J. Rich, Lynn A.Brant, Gareth D. Mitchell, James C. Hower

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In Memoriam

Obituary for Dr. William Spackman (1919-2014)

http://www.tsop.org/newsl/nl312pr.pdf

(by FrederickJ. Rich , Lynn A. Brant , Gareth D. Mitchell , James C. Hower Frederick J. Rich, Lynn A. Brant , Gareth D. Mitchell , James C. Hower)

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