What is the name of the paleontologist and professor who influenced Porter Sargent?
Porter Sargent In his youth, Sargent's family moved to a ranch in San Bernardino, California. In 1892, he became principal of a San Bernardino grammar school. The next year he went to study at Harvard University, where he obtained his bachelor's (1896) and masters (1897). Among the professors who influenced him were William James, Nathaniel Shaler, Charles Eliot Norton, and William Gilson Farlow. After graduation, Sargent taught school in Cambridge, and did graduate research on neurology, publishing 10 scientific papers, but quitting before he received his doctorate. For a decade beginning in 1904, Sargent ran a travel school for boys, in which he led tours to Europe and other parts of the world.
Matt J. Wedel Mathew John Wedel is an American paleontologist. He is associate professor at the Western University of Health Sciences Department of Anatomy in California. Mathew studies sauropods and the evolution of pneumatic bones in dinosaurs. At Western University, Mathew teaches gross anatomy. He has authored papers naming "Aquilops" (2014), "Brontomerus" (2011), and "Sauroposeidon" (2000).