Given the question: What type of details about j. william schopf can be gathered from the following bio? Bio: james william schopf -lrb- born september 27 , 1941 -rrb- is an american paleobiologist and professor of earth sciences at the university of california los angeles . he is also director of the center for the study of evolution and the origin of life , and a member of the department of earth and space sciences , the institute of geophysics and planetary physics , and the molecular biology institute at ucla . he is most well known for his study of precambrian prokaryotic life in australia 's apex chert . schopf has published extensively in the peer reviewed literature about the origins of life on earth . he is the first to discover precambrian microfossils in stromatolitic sediments of australia -lrb- 1965 -rrb- , south africa -lrb- 1966 -rrb- , russia -lrb- 1977 -rrb- , india -lrb- 1978 -rrb- , and china -lrb- 1984 -rrb- . he served as nasa 's principal investigator of lunar samples during 1969 -- 1974 .
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