Romer-Simpson Medal
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The Romer-Simpson Medal is the highest award issued by the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
for "sustained and outstanding scholarly excellence and service to the discipline of vertebrate paleontology
". The award in named in honor of Alfred S. Romer and George G. Simpson.
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology was founded in 1940 for individuals with an interest in vertebrate paleontology. SVP now has almost 2,000 members. The society's website states that SVP "is organized exclusively for educational and scientific purposes...
for "sustained and outstanding scholarly excellence and service to the discipline of vertebrate paleontology
Vertebrate paleontology
Vertebrate paleontology is a large subfield to paleontology seeking to discover the behavior, reproduction and appearance of extinct animals with vertebrae or a notochord, through the study of their fossilized remains...
". The award in named in honor of Alfred S. Romer and George G. Simpson.
Past awards
- 1987 Everett C. Olson
- 1988 Bobb Schaeffer
- 1989 Edwin H. Colbert
- 1990 Richard Estes
- 1991 no award
- 1992 Loris S. Russell
- 1993 Zhou Ming-ZhenZhou Ming-ZhenZhou Ming-Zhen , also known as Minchen M. Chow, and as "Ming" by his close friends was a pioneering Chinese paleomammalogist...
- 1994 John H. Ostrom
- 1995 Zofia Kielan-JaworowskaZofia Kielan-JaworowskaZofia Kielan-Jaworowska is a Polish paleobiologist. In the mid-1960s Kielan-Jaworowska led a series of Polish-Mongolian paleontological expeditions to the Gobi Desert...
- 1996 Percy Butler
- 1997 Colin PattersonColin Patterson (biologist)Colin Patterson FRS , was a paleontologist at the British Museum who specialised in fossil fish and systematics, advocating the transformed cladistics school....
- 1998 A. E. Wood
- 1999 Robert Warren Wilson
- 2000 John A. WilsonJohn A. WilsonJohn A. Wilson was an American politician.Wilson served in 1974 as the chairman of the drive to approve the referendum to adopt the Home Rule Charter for the District of Columbia...
- 2001 Malcom McKenna
- 2002 Mary R. Dawson
- 2003 Rainer Zangerl
- 2004 Robert L. CarrollRobert L. CarrollRobert Lynn Carroll is a vertebrate paleontologist who specialises in Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians and reptiles.Carroll was an only child and grew up on a farm near Lansing, Michigan...
- 2005 Donald E. Russell
- 2006 William A. Clemens
- 2007 Wann Langston, Jr.Wann Langston, Jr.Wann Langston, Jr. is an American paleontologist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He has worked on a number of different reptiles and amphibians in his long career, beginning with the 1950 description of the theropod dinosaur Acrocanthosaurus...
- 2008 Jose BonaparteJosé BonaparteJosé Fernando Bonaparte, Ph.D. , is an Argentine paleontologist who discovered a plethora of South American dinosaurs and mentored a new generation of Argentine paleontologists like Rodolfo Coria...
- 2010 Rinchen Barsbold