William H. Shideler

William Henry "Doc" Shideler (July 14, 1886 – December 18, 1958) was an American geologist who was the founder and longtime chair of the Department of geology at Miami University.

"Doc", as he was known from his undergraduate days on, was a member of the Erodelphian Literary Society and chaired the Athletic Board of Control in his final year.

He earned his Ph.D. in geology at Cornell University in 1910 under the direction of the eminent biostratigrapher and student of Louis Agassiz, Henry Shaler Williams.

As a paleontologist, he became an expert on the Upper Ordovician fossils and stratigraphy that are revealed in the outcroppings and creek beds around Oxford, Ohio.

Thirteen species, three genera, one family, and one mountain (Mount Shideler) in Antarctica were named for him as "a geologist's way of passing a compliment," he once said.

When he retired the following year, he was the recipient of a John Hay Whitney Foundation grant to go to Hiram College to start a geology program there, much as he had done for Miami in 1920.

The Shidelers lived in a historic Oxford home that had belonged to David Swing and was later used in filming the Jodie Foster movie Little Man Tate.