Jan Smit | |
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Born | |
Alma mater | University of Amsterdam |
Occupation | Paleontologist |
Known for | Alvarez hypothesis |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Event stratigraphy |
Institutions | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
Thesis | A Catastrophic Event at the Cretaceous–Tertiary Boundary (1981) |
Jan Smit (born 8 April 1948) is a Dutch paleontologist. He was affiliated with the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from 2003 to 2013 as a professor of event stratigraphy, studying rapid changes in the geological record related to mass extinctions.[1]