Paleontological Society Medal
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The Paleontological Society Medal the most prestigious honor bestowed by the Paleontological Society
, is awarded to a person whose eminence is based on advancement of knowledge in 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...
, is awarded to a person whose eminence is based on advancement of knowledge in paleontology.
Awardees
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 1963 | Raymond C. Moore |
| 1964 | G. Arthur Cooper |
| 1966 | Alfred S. Romer Alfred Romer Alfred Sherwood Romer was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist and a specialist in vertebrate evolution.-Biography:... |
| 1967 | Carl O. Dunbar |
| 1970 | Ralph W. Chaney |
| 1971 | Preston E. Cloud Preston Cloud Preston Ercelle Cloud, Jr. was an American paleontologist, geographer, and professor. He was best-known for his work on the geologic time scale and the origin of life on Earth.-Early life:... |
| 1972 | Katherine VanWinkle Palmer |
| 1973 | George Gaylord Simpson George Gaylord Simpson George Gaylord Simpson was an American paleontologist. Simpson was perhaps the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century, and a major participant in the modern evolutionary synthesis, contributing Tempo and mode in evolution , The meaning of evolution and The major features of... |
| 1974 | John W. Wells |
| 1975 | F. M. Carpenter |
| 1976 | Kenneth E. Caster |
| 1977 | Wendell Woodring |
| 1978 | James M. Schopf |
| 1979 | Norman D. Newell Norman D. Newell Norman Dennis Newell was professor of geology at Columbia University, and chairman and curator of invertebrate paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.-Personal life:... |
| 1980 | Everett C. Olson |
| 1981 | Harold S. Ladd |
| 1982 | Alfred R.Loeblich, Jr. & Helen Tappan |
| 1983 | Harry B. Whittington Harry B. Whittington Harry Blackmore Whittington FRS was a British paleontologist based at the Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, and was affiliated to Sidney Sussex College. He attended Handsworth Grammar School in Birmingham, followed by a degree and Ph.D in geology from the University of Birmingham... |
| 1984 | Curt Teichert |
| 1985 | William A. Cobban |
| 1986 | Heinz A. Lowenstam |
| 1987 | Harlan P. Banks |
| 1988 | Rousseau H. Flower & J. Wyatt Durham |
| 1989 | Thomas W. Amsden |
| 1990 | Daniel I. Axelrod |
| 1991 | Norman F. Sohl |
| 1992 | Malcolm C. McKenna |
| 1993 | Adolf Seilacher Adolf Seilacher Adolf "Dolf" Seilacher is a German palaeontologist who has made major contributions to evolutionary and ecological palaeobiology in a career stretching over 60 years. He won the Crafoord Prize in 1992, the Paleontological Society Medal in 1994 and the Palaeontological Association's Lapworth Medal... |
| 1994 | Walter C. Sweet |
| 1995 | Alfred G. Fischer |
| 1996 | James W. Valentine James W. Valentine James W. Valentine is an American evolutionary biologist and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley... |
| 1997 | David M. Raup David M. Raup David M. Raup is a University of Chicago paleontologist. Raup studied the fossil record and the diversity of life on Earth. Raup contributed to the knowledge of extinction events along with his colleague Jack Sepkoski... |
| 1998 | Allison R. (Pete) Palmer |
| 1999 | Arthur J. Boucot |
| 2000 | Jack A. Wolfe |
| 2001 | Alan H. Cheetham Alan Cheetham Alan H. Cheetham is a paleobiologist and retired senior scientist and curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.... |
| 2002 | 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.... |
| 2003 | Richard K. Bambach |
| 2004 | Martin A.Buzas |
| 2005 | 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,... |
| 2006 | Geerat J. Vermeij Geerat J. Vermeij Dr. Geerat J. Vermeij, born in the Netherlands, is a professor of geology at the University of California at Davis. Blind from the age of three, he graduated from Princeton University in 1968 and received his Ph.D. in biology and geology from Yale University in 1971.An evolutionary biologist and... |
| 2007 | 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... |
| 2008 | 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:... |
| 2009 | Jeremy Jackson Jeremy Jackson (scientist) Jeremy Jackson is a marine ecologist, paleontologist and a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California as well as a Senior Scientist Emeritus at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in the Republic of Panama... |
| 2010 | Bruce Runnegar |