George Gaylord Simpson
Birth : (1902-06-16)June 16, 1902 Chicago, Illinois
Death : October 6, 1984(1984-10-06)(aged 82) Fresno, California
Personal Information
| Name | George Gaylord Simpson |
|---|---|
| Birth | (1902-06-16)June 16, 1902 Chicago, Illinois |
| Birth Place | Chicago, Illinois |
| Death | (1984-10-06)(aged 82) Fresno, California |
| Died At | Fresno, California |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma Mater | ,University of Colorado,Yale University, B.A., Ph.D. |
| Fields | Paleontology |
| Institution | Columbia University) |
| Famous Research | Modern synthesis;quantum evolution | Doctoral Advisor | Richard Swann Lull |
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Events Occured in Scienctist Life
Simpson was perhaps the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century, and a major participant in the modern synthesis, contributing Tempo and Mode in Evolution (1944),
He coined the word hypodigm in 1940, and published extensively on the taxonomy of fossil and extant mammals.
In 1943 Simpson was awarded the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.
For his work, Tempo and mode in evolution, he was awarded the Academy's Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal in 1944.
He was awarded the Linnean Society of London's prestigious Darwin-Wallace Medal in 1958.
Simpson also received the Royal Society's Darwin Medal 'In recognition of his distinguished contributions to general evolutionary theory, based on a profound study of palaeontology, particularly of vertebrates,' in 1962.
In 1966, Simpson received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
In the 1960s, Simpson "rubbished the then-nascent science of exobiology, which concerned itself with life on places other than Earth, as a science without a subject".
Attending marvels (1931) Quantitative Zoology (1939)
The Dechronization of Sam Magruder (posthumously published novella, 1996)
