Farish A. Jenkins
Farish Alston Jenkins Jr. (born May 19, 1940 in New York City , † November 11, 2012 in Boston ) was an American vertebrate paleontologist .
Jenkins studied at Princeton University ( bachelor's degree in 1961) and, with an interruption of almost four years with the US Marine Corps, where he reached the rank of captain, Yale University ( master's degree in 1966). He received his PhD in geology from Yale University in 1968 . He also had a Masters degree from Harvard University (1974). From 1968 he was an instructor and then assistant professor of anatomy at Columbia University Medical School and from 1971 associate professor of biology and associate curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and the Harvard Medical School . Since 1974 he has been curator of vertebrate paleontology and professor of biology and since 1989 Alexander Agassiz professor of zoology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. He was also Professor of Anatomy in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.
In 1994 he discovered the jawbones of Haramiyida , early mammals from the late Triassic , of which only teeth were otherwise known, in northwest Greenland . With Ted Daeschler and Neil Shubin he was the first describer (2006) and finder of Tiktaalik , a fossil with fish and amphibian characteristics of the upper Devonian of Ellesmere Island . He also dealt with the biomechanics of the musculoskeletal apparatus.
In 2009 he was awarded the Romer Simpson Medal of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology , and in 2011 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
literature
- Andrew Rimas: He landed the fish that landed itself. Portrait in Taft Bulletin , autumn 2006, online, pdf, 3.4 MB
- Douglas Martin: Farish Jenkins, Expert on Evolving Fossils, Dies at 72 . In: New York Times . November 30, 2012.
- Neil Shubin: Farish A. Jenkins Jr (1940-2012). In: Nature. Volume 492, No. 7427, 2012, p. 42, doi: 10.1038 / 492042a
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ Farish Jenkins, paleontologist, Harvard teacher at the Boston Globe (bostonglobe.com); Retrieved November 15, 2012
- ↑ nature.com of November 13, 2012: Farish A. Jenkins (1940–2012).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jenkins, Farish A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jenkins, Farish Alston (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 2012 |
| Place of death | Boston |