page_title: Adolf Carl Noé
section_title: Paleobotanical work
hierarchical_section_title: Adolf Carl Noé / Biography / Paleobotanical work
caption_attribution_description: English: A 42-pound coal ball. http://meteorites.wustl.edu/meteorwrongs/m069.htm (archived) 中文: 一個四十二磅的煤球
context_page_description: Adolf Carl Noé was an Austrian-born paleobotanist. He is credited for identifying the first coal ball in the United States in 1922, which renewed interest in them. He also developed a method of peeling coal balls using nitrocellulose. Many of the paleobotanical materials owned by the University of Chicago's Walker Museum were provided by Noé, where he was also a curator of fossil plants. He was also a research associate at the Field Museum of Natural History, where he assisted with their reconstruction of a Carboniferous forest.
context_section_description: Noé became a geologist for the Allan and Garcia Coal Commission in the Soviet Union in 1927, ten years after the October Revolution. There, in the Donetz coal basin, Noé did work as a mining geologist, where he fulfilled a contract granted by the Soviet government assessing the state of coal production in the region. Upon his return to the United States he published a memoir of his journey, Golden Days of Soviet Russia.
  In 1934, Noé became the Field Museum of Natural History's research associate, and assisted in the construction of a Pennsylvanian coal swamp there.
caption: A coal ball
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