Albert E. Wood
Albert Elmer Wood (born September 22, 1910 in Cape May Court House, New Jersey , † November 11, 2002 ibid) was an American vertebrate paleontologist. In particular, he was a specialist in fossil rodents.
Wood earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1930 and his master's degree in zoology from Columbia University in 1932 , where he received his doctorate in geology (paleontology) in 1935. Before and during his studies, he took part in paleontological excavations in the western United States. In 1935/36 he visited museums in Europe and the USA for research purposes. From 1936 he was a geologist in the US Army Corps of Engineers and in the US Army during World War II, where he was awarded the Purple Heart , among other things . From 1946 he was Assistant Professor, from 1948 Associate Professor and from 1954 Professor in the Faculty of Biology at Amherst College . From 1962 to 1966 he was there at the Faculty of Biology. In 1970 he retired. 1967/68 he was President of the Williston Academy in Easthampton , Massachusetts . In 1972 he was visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley .
In 1998 he received the Romer-Simpson Medal of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology , of which he was president in 1960/61 and of which he became an honorary member in 1977.
His brother Horace Elmer Wood was also a vertebrate paleontologist.
Fonts
- Evolution and Relationship of the Heteromyid Rodents with New Forms from the Tertiary of Western North America , Annals of the Carnegie Museum 1935
- Porcupines, Paleogeography, and Parallelism , Evolution, Volume 4, 1950, pp. 87-98 (examines the problem of the paleogeography of porcupine relatives - they occur in Eurasia and South America, but did not appear in North America until relatively late in the Tertiary from South America He gives alternatives to an explanation from the continental drift), first page at jstor
- A Revised Classification of the Rodents , Journal of Mammalogy , Volume 36, 1955, p. 165
- The Oligocene Rodens of North America , Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 70, 1980
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| SURNAME | Wood, Albert E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wood, Albert Elmer (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American vertebrate paleontologist and college professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cape May Court House, New Jersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 2002 |
| Place of death | Cape May Court House, New Jersey |