{"name": "Thomas Wayland Vaughan", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Dr. Thomas Wayland Vaughan was a geologist, paleontologist, and oceanographer . Educated at Harvard (AB, AM, PhD), he was an authority on marine sediments, fossil and recent corals, and American Tertiary stratigraphy. He was a researcher with the United States Geological Survey (1894-1939), and then joined the United States National Museum where he served as Custodian of Madreporian Corals (1903\u201323), an Associate in Marine Sediments (1924-1942), and as an Associate in Paleontology (1942-1952). He was also Director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1924-1936. His research focused on the study of corals and coral reefs, the investigation of larger foraminifera, and oceanography. Under his directorship, Scripps Institute, La Jolla, California, became a leading oceanographical research center."}, "personal_name": "Thomas Wayland Vaughan", "death_date": "1952-01-16", "photos": [5594421], "birth_date": "1870-09-20", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"viaf": "76408635", "wikidata": "Q1763339", "isni": "0000000081565193", "lc_naf": "n85173500", "opac_sbn": "UTOV483877"}, "key": "/authors/OL115403A", "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-30T17:22:43.455197"}}