Brian J. Skinner
born 1928
After working at Harvard in the mid-1950s, Brian J. Skinner became Assistant Professor of Geology in Adelaide (Australia) in . He returned to the United States in 1959 to work at the U.S. Geological Survey in Washington D.C., and in 1966 he was appointed as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University.