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The first source I will be using is Virgil Winkler's bibliography released by his family on 08/08/2007. It does not seem to have a publication as it is not a professional paper but it was retrieved from the University Of Illinois archive at the link below. This source will help for nearly the entirety of what I will basically be creating a bibliography for him on Wikipedia and this will be a great source of data. I think I will have to look for more information on the exact authors and original publication to better source this document. https://archon.library.illinois.edu/archives/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=5708&q=Virgil+Winkler

Unfortunately, I do not currently have access to the other documents at the moment as they are in physical form within the University Library. I will be contacting the library for digital copies or I will be visiting the locations where the information is stored to look further into the documents. They all appear to be publications by Virgil Winkler and I believe these documents will help me to gather more information on any important discoveries he has made or what sorts of information he discussed while part of the university.

The other documents include:

Stratigraphic geology of the Pennington of eastern Kentucky and east central Tennessee By: Virgil Winkler Published: 1941

Comparison of the French and English folk song as to similarities of subject matter and method of treatment By: Virgil Winkler Published: 1938

Stratigraphic geology of the Pennington of eastern Kentucky and east central Tennessee By: Virgil Winkler Published: 1941

Phanocrinus and related Mississippian Crinoidea By: Virgil Winkler, Arle Herbert Published: 1939

All located: https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=creator,exact,Winkler,%20Virgil%20Dean,AND&search_scope=MyInstitution&vid=01CARLI_UIU:CARLI_UIU&facet=creator,exact,Winkler,%20Virgil%20Dean&mode=advanced&offset=0

The Universal Encyclopedia Section Starts Here

Virgil Winkler (February 9, 1917, – March 24, 2007) was an American geologist. He was educated at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign eventually becoming a Doctor in Philosophy of Science in Geology in June 1941. He would go on to have a career in the then-new Venezuela oil industry and teach as a professor at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. He would work in both these fields until the oil industry's nationalization in 1975 where he would then become a full-time professor at the Universidad Central de Venezuela until 2002 when he retired due to health-related reasons.

Early life and education
Virgil Winkler was born February 9th, 1917 on a farm near the town of Danvers, Illinois, born to Arville Winkler and Florence Hedrick. He would live his children in poverty living through both the first world war and the Great Depression. He would receive his high school diploma at Mackinaw High School in 1934 at the age of 17. He would continue his education after moving to Champaign-Urbana at the University of Illinois. Between 1934 and 1941 he would receive a bachelor of science degree in Geology, a master's degree in Geological Sciences (1939), and become a Doctor in Philosophy of Science in Geology (1941). Within this same span of time, he would complete Pre-medical school, receive the Competence Scholarship from the State of Illinois, and would marry his first wife Ruth Shirley Erickson in 1938. This marriage would only last 2 years due to his wife's premature death of a pulmonary embolism in 1940.

Career
In 1941 Virgil Winkler would travel to Venezuela and would begin a career in the country's newly started oil industry. He would work as a Paleontologist for the Geological Laboratory or Caripito of Standard Oil Co achieving the rank of Director for the sector in 1943. This is the same time when the company would combine with another to become the Creole Petroleum Corporation leading to Virgil transferring to the capital city of the Republic and becoming Director of the company's single centralized laboratory until 1955. Between the years 1954 and 1964, he would receive the positions of Secretary, Vice-President, and Counselor for the Venezuelan Association of Geology, Mining, and Petroleum. During this same time he also had other responsibilities in 1955-56, he would act as the Coordinator of the Geologic Laboratories of Creole requiring him to travel around the country, in 1956-58 he became Chief of Staff in the Geologic Evaluation Section of Creole, and in 1958 he would start teaching in the Universidad Central de Venezuela where he continued to teach until his retirement in 2002 for medical reasons. He retired from the Creole Petroleum Co in 1975 due to the nationalization of Venezuela's oil industry. However, he would continue to work from 1977-87 at Lagoven S.A. as a Geological and geophysical Advisor for the Geology Department.

Personal life
During his time in Venezuela Virgil would also start a family. He would marry for a second time in 1943 to Ana Segunda (Lila) Balza. They would go on to have two children Moraima (1948) and Kelvin Dean (1951) they would eventually have 5 grandchildren (Arturo, Gabriel, Jessica Perez Winkler, and Alexandra and Patrick Winkler Osorio). 3 from Moraima and 2 from Kelvin. However, during his time in Venezuela, he would never receive citizenship.

Death and legacy
Virgil Winkler would die on the 24 of March 2007 in Caracas at the age of 90 due to cardiac arrest and respiratory arrest. His funeral would be attended by his 2 children his political daughter and son-in-law, Carmen R Osorio Galdona and Gerónimo PEREZ, and his five grandchildren. As for his legacy, he would leave behind the discoveries and achievements he made during his career as well as his professional library which was donated to the Specialized Library of Virgil Winkler in the School of Geology, Mines and Geophysics from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in 2000.

Reference
Virgil Winkler Biography (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University Library)