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John J. W. Rogers (1930–2015) left Rice University, where he had chaired the geology department, in 1975 to take a Kenan chair in geology at the University of North Carolina and moved to Chapel Hill. He was Kenan Professor Emeritus of Geology at his death.
Source: The News & Observer (via Legacy.com): Dr. John James William Rogers obituary, January 2015
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1930–2015 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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John J. W. Rogers, a geologist who taught at Rice University and then at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, sets down his memories of university life. Published by PublishAmerica in 2011, 143 pages with illustrations. It is biography of college teachers and geologists in North Carolina and the United States.
Cartoons carry the history of the University of North Carolina in this 2010 volume by John J. W. Rogers, 46 unnumbered pages of illustrations published in Chapel Hill. It is caricature and miscellanea about the university, a light companion to the standard campus histories. An ISBN is recorded, 9780840070487.
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