Tullis onstott biography sample

American geologist (1955–2021)

Tullis Onstott (January 12, 1955 – October 19, 2021) was a professor of geosciences at Princeton University who has done research into endolithic life deep under the Earth's surface. In 2011 he co-discovered Halicephalobus mephisto, a nematode worm living 0.9–3.6 km (0.56–2.24 mi) under the ground,^[2] the deepest multicellular organism known to science.

He won a LExEN Award for his work "A Window Into the Extreme Environment of Deep Subsurface Microbial Communities: Witwatersrand Deep Microbiology Project".^[3] In 2007, Onstott was listed among Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.^[4]

Life and education

Onstott attended the California Institute of Technology and was awarded a B.S.

in Geophysics in 1976. He later moved to Princeton University to earn a M.A. in 1978 and later a Ph.D. in 1980, both in Geology, under the direction of Robert B. Hargraves.^[5] Af Tullis Onstott, innovative geologist, explorer of subsurface ... XUQ