Jan Smit (paleontologist)

Jan Smit
Jan Smit
	Smit in 2017 looking at rocks
Born	8 April 1948; The Hague, Netherlands
Alma mater	University of Amsterdam
Occupation	Paleontologist
Known for	Alvarez hypothesis
Awards	Barringer Medal (2012); Van Waterschoot van der Gracht Medal (2016);
	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.

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