Category Archives: donald rusk currey. Posted on November 21, 2013 by Lew Powell. This account of how British scientists in 2006 accidentally killed the world’s oldest known clam reminded me of a how a UNC Chapel Hill scientist in 1964 accidentally killed the world’s oldest known tree. Donald Rusk Currey was an undergraduate studying climate dynamics during the Little Ice Age and needed a core sample of trees from this era. Donald Rusk Currey - Donald Rusk Currey (January 24, 1934 – June 6, 2004) was an American professor of geography. He died on June 6th, 2004. Popularity: Henry Currey Henry was born in 1863. Donald Rusk Currey (January 24, 1934 – June 6, 2004) was an American professor of geography. Popularity: Jr. Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Brownlee O. Currey is a businessman. Juni 2004) war ein amerikanischer Professor für Geographie.In Forscherkreisen ist er für seine Forschungen über Relikte des prähistorischen See Lake Bonneville im Ostteil des Großen Beckens im heutigen Utah bekannt.
Unnecessarily, he chose the oldest tree around and tried to take a core sample of it. Donald Rusk Currey (* 1934; † 6. Regardless of the image you just conjured, it’s not going to hold a candle to the most awful workday of Donald Rusk Currey.
His name is Donald Rusk Currey and he made a mistake. Prometheus undone and historic evidence gone missing. His Worst Day Ever happened in 1964, when he was researching trees ... and managed to kill the oldest tree mankind had ever discovered.

The lab also houses a slice of the bristlecone pine that was cut down in the 1960s by a graduate student named Donald Rusk Currey from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Donald Rusk Currey Donald was born in 1934. While known in academia for his extensive research and exploration of relics of the ancient Lake Bonneville in the eastern Great Basin, he was best known to the public for his controversial felling of Prometheus, the oldest living non-clonal organism known at the time, while a graduate student in 1964. He breathed his last breath in 1945. I won’t go too much into specifics, but in 1964, August 6TH, as a graduate student, got permission to cut down a tree, a Bristlecone pine tree, to study.