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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Kenneth Edward Caster</b> (* <a href="26._Januar" title="26. Januar">26. Januar</a> <a href="1908" title="1908">1908</a> in New Albany, <a href="Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>; † <a href="18._Mai" title="18. Mai">18. Mai</a> <a href="1992" title="1992">1992</a> im Universitätsklinikum von <a href="Cincinnati" title="Cincinnati">Cincinnati</a>, <a href="Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>) war ein US-amerikanischer <a href="Pal%C3%A4ontologe" class="mw-redirect" title="Paläontologe">Paläontologe</a>.
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<p>Ab 1936 Professor an der <a href="University_of_Cincinnati" title="University of Cincinnati">University of Cincinnati</a>, befasste er sich mit vielen Bereichen der Paläontologie, speziell mit <a href="Echinodermata" class="mw-redirect" title="Echinodermata">Echinodermata</a> und <a href="Arthropoda" class="mw-redirect" title="Arthropoda">Arthropoda</a>, aber auch mit Schwämmen, Fischen und <a href="Eurypterida" class="mw-redirect" title="Eurypterida">Eurypterida</a>. Er arbeitete viel auf der Südhalbkugel und in Indien, dem alten <a href="Gondwana" title="Gondwana">Gondwana</a>-Kontinent.
</p><p>Caster erhielt die <a href="Paleontological_Society_Medal" title="Paleontological Society Medal">Paleontological Society Medal</a>, die Orville A. Derby Medal des Brasilianischen Geologischen Dienstes und die Gondwana Medal des Geological Survey of India. Er war <a href="Guggenheim_Fellow" class="mw-redirect" title="Guggenheim Fellow">Guggenheim Fellow</a> und Fulbright Fellow.
</p><p>Zudem war er dreimal Präsident der Paleontological Research Institution und Präsident der <a href="Paleontological_Society" title="Paleontological Society">Paleontological Society</a>, die einen Preis nach ihm und seiner Ehefrau Annie Caster (1910–1995), einer Geologin, die mit Caster zusammenarbeitete, benannte.
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.paleosoc.org/student_awards.html">Biographie beim Caster Award der Paleontological Society</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>Ronald L. Stuckey: <cite style="font-style:italic">Kenneth Edward Caster (1908–1992) – Necrology</cite>. In: <cite style="font-style:italic">The Ohio journal of science</cite>. <span style="white-space:nowrap">Band<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em"> </span>93</span>, <span style="white-space:nowrap">Nr.<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em"> </span>5</span>, 1993, <span style="white-space:nowrap">S.<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em"> </span>158</span> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/23588/V093N5_155.pdf?sequence=1">online</a> [PDF; abgerufen am 29. August 2013]).<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info:sid/de.wikipedia.org:Kenneth+E.+Caster&rft.atitle=Kenneth+Edward+Caster+%281908-1992%29+-+Necrology&rft.au=Ronald+L.+Stuckey&rft.date=1993&rft.genre=journal&rft.issue=5&rft.jtitle=The+Ohio+journal+of+science&rft.pages=158&rft.volume=93" style="display:none"> </span></li>
<li>Frank Delno Holland Jr., John Pojeta Jr.: <cite style="font-style:italic">Memorial to Kenneth Edward Caster, 1908-1992</cite>. In: <cite style="font-style:italic">Geological Society of America: Memorials</cite>. <span style="white-space:nowrap">Band<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em"> </span>25</span>, 1995, <span style="white-space:nowrap">S.<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em"> </span>15–17</span>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rfr_id=info:sid/de.wikipedia.org:Kenneth+E.+Caster&rft.atitle=Memorial+to+Kenneth+Edward+Caster%2C+1908-1992&rft.au=Frank+Delno+Holland+Jr.%2C+John+Pojeta+Jr.&rft.btitle=Geological+Society+of+America%3A+Memorials&rft.date=1995&rft.genre=book&rft.pages=15-17&rft.volume=25" style="display:none"> </span></li></ul>
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