Judge Sheindlin is married to Judge Jerry Sheindlin, a former Judge of the Supreme Court of New York. The second marriage for both, they have five children between them: Gregory, Jamie, Jonathan, Adam and Nicole, as well as 13 grandchildren.
Thus, along with Steno, Lehmann helped pioneer the idea of the stratigraphic column, discussed later in this essay. The man credited as the father of stratigraphy, however, was the English engineer and geologist William Smith (1769-1839). In 1815 Smith produced the first modern geologic map, showing rock strata in England and Wales.
Smithson and the Sherlock of Bones. The Smithsonian has collected more than 142 million objectsâfrom flags and fossils, to sculptures and spacecrafts, to toys and tapestries. But the most unusual thing it has collected may be the bones of its founder, James Smithson!