Gustav Arthur Cooper (February 9, 1902 – October 17, 2000)[1] was an American paleobiologist.
Cooper was born in College Point, Queens, and attended Colgate University.
His dissertation was titled, "Stratigraphy of the Hamilton Group of New York."
He met his future wife, Josephine Wells, while they were both studying geology at Yale.
[3] They married in 1930 and moved to Washington, D.C.[3] In 1930, he got a job as assistant curator at the Division of Stratigraphic Paleontology in United States National Museum.