Frederic Brewster Loomis

Frederic Brewster Loomis

Frederic Brewster Loomis was an American paleontologist. Educated at Amherst College and LMU Munich, he spent his entire professional career at Amherst. His specialty was vertebrate paleontology. Many fossils he uncovered during his extensive field work are still exhibited at Amherst's Beneski Museum of Natural History. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Geological Society of America, and president of the Paleontological Society.