title: Richard E. Grant (paleontologist)
text: # Richard E. Grant (paleontologist)
  
  Richard E. Grant (1927–1994) was an American paleontologist.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Grant was born in 1927. From 1972 until his death he served as a Chairman, Curator, and a Senior Geologist in the Department of Paleobiology and National Museum of Natural History. He is most famous for studying Brachiopods of Permian period in 1979. He died in 1994.
  
  