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Name	Phillips, John H., 1800-1874
Othernames	J. H. Phillips
Born	12/25/1800
Birthplace	Marden, Wiltshire, England
Places of residence	Yorkshire, England
Titles & honors	1834 elected a fellow of the Royal Society 1845 awarded the Wollaston Medal by the Geological Society of London 1859–1860 he was president of the Geological Society of London 1865 president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Father	John Phillips
Mother	Elizabeth Smith Phillips
Nationality	English
Education	Honorary degrees of LL.D. from Dublin and Cambridge D.C.L. from Oxford
Notes	One of John Phillips greatest contributions was naming the major geological eras (Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic) and the mass extinctions that separated them. On 23 April 1874, he dined at All Souls College, but on leaving he slipped and fell down a flight of stone stairs. He died the next day. His body was accompanied to Oxford railway station by 150 mourners. After arrival at York, he lay in state overnight in the Yorkshire Museum. The next day, 30 April 1874, the Minster bells were tolled for 90 minutes before his funeral. He was buried in York Cemetery alongside his sister and his benefactor Thomas Gray, under a modest gravestone. Craters on Mars and the Moon are named after him.
Occupation	Geologist Keeper of the Yorkshire museum Secretary of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society An organizer of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Professor King's College London 1840 appointed to the staff of the geological survey of Great Britain Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum 1854–1870
Publications	1841 descriptive memoir 1841 published the first global geologic time scale
Relationships	Nephew of the 'father of geology' William Smith Sister-Anne Phillips

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