nationality work_institutions field residence article_title name alma_mater
american princeton university geology new jersey , united states tullis onstott
 tullis onstott california institute of technology princeton university
tullis onstott

tullis onstott is a professor of geosciences at princeton university who has done research into endolithic life deep under the earth 's surface .
in 2007 , onstott was listed among `` time magazine 's '' 100 most influential people in the world .
in 2011 he co-discovered `` halicephalobus mephisto '' , a nematode worm living under the ground , the deepest multicellular organism known to science .
he won a lexen award for his work `` a window into the extreme environment of deep subsurface microbial communities : witwatersrand deep microbiology project '' .
