Andrew Knoll

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Andrew Knoll, member of the Royal Society

Andrew Herbert Knoll (* 1951 in West Reading , Berks County ) is an American planetologist and paleontologist . He holds the Fisher Professor of Natural History and is Professor of Geosciences and Planetary Sciences ( Earth and Planetary Sciences ) at the Harvard University . He is also the curator of the university's paleobotanical collection.

Life

Knoll graduated in 1973 as a Bachelor of Arts at the Lehigh University . In 1977 he obtained the degree of Ph.D. from Harvard University with a thesis on the paleontology of the Archean and early Proterozoic ( Studies in Archean and Early Proterozoic Paleontology ). Knoll taught at Oberlin College for five years before returning to Harvard as a professor in 1982.

Knoll became known through his work on Precambrian microfossils and the use of stable isotopes in the age allocation of rock layers ( stratigraphic correlation ). Further research areas are geobiology , palaeobotany and the planetary development of Mars .

Awards and honors

In 1987 he received the Charles Schuchert Award from the Paleontological Society as a promising paleontologist under 40 and in the same year the Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. Since 1996 he has been an honorary doctor of Uppsala University . In 2005 he was awarded the Raymond C. Moore Medal of the Society of Sedimentary Geology (2008) and the Paleontological Society Medal of the Paleontological Society . In 2007 the Geological Society of London awarded him the Wollaston Medal . In 2012 he received the Mary Clark Thompson Medal of the National Academy of Sciences and in 2018 the International Prize for Biology . In 1987 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 1991 to the National Academy of Sciences, 1997 to the American Philosophical Society and 2015 as a foreign member of the Royal Society .

Books

  • 2007 - The Evolution of Primary Producers in the Sea . Falkowski, P. and AH Knoll, eds. (Elsevier).
  • 2004 - Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth . (Princeton University Press). ISBN 0-691-12029-3 (awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Book Award )

Scientific papers

  • NJ Tosca, AH Knoll, SM McLennan: Water activity and the challenge for life on early Mars . In: Science . tape 320 , 2008, p. 1204-1207 .
  • JP Wilson, AH Knoll, NM Holbrook, CR Marshall: Modeling fluid flow in Medullosa , an anatomically unusual Paleozoic seed plant . In: Paleobiology . tape 34 , 2008, p. 472-493 .
  • AH Knoll, RK Bambach, J. Payne, S. Pruss, W. Fischer: A paleophysiological perspective on the end-Permian mass extinction and its aftermath . In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters . tape 256 , 2007, pp. 295-313 .
  • A. Tomitani, AH Knoll, CM Cavanaugh, T. Ohno: The evolutionary diversification of cyanobacteria: molecular phylogenetic and paleontological perspectives . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA . tape 103 , 2006, pp. 5442-5447 .
  • AH Knoll, EJ Javaux, D. Hewitt, P. Cohen: Eukaryotic organisms in Proterozoic oceans . In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London . 361B, 2006, p. 1023-1028 .
  • S. Squyres, AH Knoll: Outcrop geology at Meridiani Planum: Introduction . In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters . tape 240 , 2005, p. 1-10 .
  • AH Knoll, MR Walter, GM Narbonne, N. Christie-Blick: A New Period for the Geologic Time Scale . In: Science . tape 305 , 2004, pp. 621 .
  • AD Anbar, AH Knoll: Proterozoic ocean chemistry and evolution: a bioinorganic bridge? In: Science . tape 297 , 2002, pp. 1137-1142 .
  • AH Knoll, SB Carroll: The early evolution of animals: Emerging views from comparative biology and geology . In: Science . tape 284 , 1999, pp. 2129-2137 .
  • AH Knoll: The early evolution of eukaryotic organisms: a geological perspective . In: Science . tape 256 , 1992, pp. 622-627 .

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Knoll, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knoll, Andrew H .; Knoll, Andrew Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH West Reading , Berks County