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Overview Most popularly known as the Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology, Joseph Leidy was also the Founder of American Parasitology, a Professor of Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, a pioneering protozoologist, an influential teacher of Natural History, a passionate microscopist, an accomplished scientific illustrator, and an expert on a variety of subjects. He published scientific papers on more than a thousand extinct and living protozoa, fungi and animals as well as an assortment...

Overview Joseph Leidy, 1823-1891, one of the great American scientists of the 19th century, possessed a vast knowledge of the natural world. Best known as the father of American vertebrate paleontology, he also pioneered the fields of parasitology and protozoology, and was the preeminent anatomist of his time. He brought much of his knowledge together as an influential teacher of natural history. While teaching zoology at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Medical Department, Leidy constructed...