Charles Schuchert Award
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The Charles Schuchert Award is presented by the Paleontological Society
to a person under 40 whose work reflects excellence and promise in the science of paleontology .
Paleontological Society
The Paleontological Society, formally the Paleontological Society of America, is an international organisation devoted to the promotion of paleontology. The Society was founded in 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland and was incorporated in April 1968 in the District of Columbia...
to a person under 40 whose work reflects excellence and promise in the science of paleontology .
Awardees
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2011 | C. Kevin Boyce |
| 2010 | Philip Donoghue Philip Donoghue Philip Conrad Donoghue is a British palaeontologist, Reader in Geology at the University of Bristol.- Selected publications :Donoghue, P. C. J., and M. A. Purnell. 2005. Genome duplication, extinction and vertebrate evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 20:312-319.Donoghue, P. C. J., S.... |
| 2009 | Tom Olszewski |
| 2008 | Michael Engel |
| 2007 | John Alroy John Alroy John Alroy is a paleobiologist born in New York in 1966 and now residing in Sydney.-Area of expertise:Alroy specializes in diversity curves, speciation, and extinction of North American fossil mammals and Phanerozoic marine invertebrates, connecting regional and local diversity, taxonomic... |
| 2006 | Shuhai Xiao |
| 2005 | Michal Kowalewski |
| 2004 | Peter J. Wagner Peter J. Wagner Peter J. Wagner is a paleontologist and curator at the Smithsonian Institution. He received his Ph.D. in Geophysical Sciences from The University of Chicago in 1995, conducted postdoctoral research at the Smithsonian Institution, and served as a curator at the Field Museum of Natural History from... |
| 2003 | Steven M. Holland |
| 2002 | Bruce Lieberman |
| 2001 | Loren E. Babcock |
| 2000 | Michael J. Foote Michael Foote Michael J. Foote is a paleontologist and co-author, with Arnold I. Miller, of Principles of Paleontology .He was awarded the Charles Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society in 2001... |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 1999 | Charles Marshall |
| 1998 | Paul L. Koch |
| 1997 | Mary L. Droser |
| 1996 | Douglas H. Erwin Douglas Erwin Douglas Erwin is a paleobiologist and Curator of Paleozoic Invertebrates at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.He has written two books: Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago in 2006, and The Great Paleozoic Crisis: Life and Death in the Permian in 1993.... |
| 1995 | Susan M. Kidwell |
| 1994 | Christopher G. Maples |
| 1993 | Peter R. Crane |
| 1992 | Stephen J. Culver |
| 1991 | Donald R. Prothero |
| 1990 | William I. Ausich & Carlton E. Brett |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 1989 | Simon Conway Morris Simon Conway Morris Simon Conway Morris FRS is an English paleontologist made known by his detailed and careful study of the Burgess Shale fossils, an exploit celebrated in Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould... |
| 1988 | David Jablonski David Jablonski David Jablonski is an American professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago. His research focuses upon the ecology and biogeography of the origin of major novelties, the evolutionary role of mass extinctions—in particular the K-T extinction—and other large-scale processes in the... |
| 1987 | Andrew H. Knoll Andrew H. Knoll Andrew H. Knoll is the Fisher Professor of Natural History and a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. He is best known for his work on Precambrian microfossils and using stable isotopes for stratigraphic correlation, but has longstanding interests in geobiology,... |
| 1986 | John A. Barron |
| 1985 | Jennifer A. Kitchell |
| 1984 | Daniel C. Fisher |
| 1983 | J. John Sepkoski, Jr. Jack Sepkoski J. John Sepkoski Jr., , was a University of Chicago paleontologist. Sepkoski studied the fossil record and the diversity of life on Earth. Sepkoski and David Raup contributed to the knowledge of extinction events... |
| 1982 | James Sprinkle |
| 1981 | Philip D. Gingerich Philip D. Gingerich Philip D. Gingerich is a Professor of Paleontology, Professor of Geological Sciences, Professor of Biology, Professor of Anthropology and Director, Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan. His research focus is in vertebrate paleontology, especially the Paleocene-Eocene transition and... |
| 1980 | James Doyle |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 1979 | R. Niles Eldredge Niles Eldredge Niles Eldredge is an American paleontologist, who, along with Stephen Jay Gould, proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972.-Education:... |
| 1978 | Robert L. Carroll |
| 1977 | Steven M. Stanley Steven M. Stanley Steven M. Stanley is an American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is best known for his empirical research documenting the evolutionary process of punctuated equilibrium in the fossil record.Stanley received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968... |
| 1976 | Thomas J. M. Schopf |
| 1975 | Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation.... |
| 1974 | James W. Schopf |
| 1973 | David M. Raup |