Addison Emery Verrill Medal
The Addison Emery Verrill Medal (Addison Emery Verrill Medal) is the Peabody Museum's highest award in natural history at Yale University . It is awarded at irregular intervals for outstanding achievements in the natural sciences. This medal was named after the American zoologist Addison Emery Verrill . As the Pulitzer Prize , the Peabody Award , the Newbery Medal and the Caldecott Medal was this award from the Medallic Art Company in Dayton produced. There is a starfish on the back of the medal; on the obverse the image of Addison Emery Verrill. Since its inception in 1959, 22 scientists have received awards.
Award winners (selection)
Surname | year | image |
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Alexander Petrunkevitch | 1959 | |
Glenn Lowell Jepsen | 1962 | |
Richard Stockton MacNeish | 1966 | |
George Gaylord Simpson | 1966 | |
Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky | 1966 | |
Ernst Mayr | 1966 | |
George Ledyard Stebbins | 1967 | |
Jean Théodore Delacour | ? | |
Rudolph Franz Zallinger | 1980 | |
R. Gordon Wasson | 1983 | |
John Harold Ostrom | 1999 | |
Norman D. Newell | ? | |
Peter Hamilton Raven | 2007 | |
Edward O. Wilson | 2007 | |
Alison F. Richard | 2008 | |
May Berenbaum | 2016 | |
Naomi Pierce | 2016 | |
Neil Shubin | 2016 | |
Geerat Vermeij | 2016 | |
David Attenborough | 2016 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d The Addison Emery Verrill Medals - Events: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. In: peabody.yale.edu. Retrieved February 16, 2017 .
- ^ Peabody announces fifth Verrill Medalist: British naturalist Sir David Attenborough. In: news.yale.edu. November 8, 2016, accessed December 10, 2017 .