Robert Warren Wilson

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Robert Warren Wilson , often quoted as Robert W. Wilson, (born July 26, 1909 in Oakland , California , † 2006 ) was an American vertebrate paleontologist who dealt primarily with mammals of the Tertiary and Quaternary in North America .

Wilson studied geology at Caltech , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1932, his master's degree in 1932 and where he received his doctorate in 1936. He was then a Sterling Research Fellow at Yale University and from 1937 to 1939 a Fellow at Caltech. From 1939 he was instructor and later Assistant Professor of Geology at the University of Colorado and from 1947 Associate Professor of Zoology and Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Kansas . From 1961 until his retirement in 1975 he was a professor at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and director of its Museum of Geology. 1975-1977 he was visiting professor at the University of Texas and from 1977 connected to the Museum of Natural History at the University of Kansas, where he was professor in 1980.

In 1967/68 he was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Vienna (since 1982 he was a corresponding member of the Natural History Museum Vienna) and in 1956/57 as a Guggenheim Fellow in London . In 1981 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History .

In 1999 he received the Romer Simpson Medal of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology , of which he was president in 1955 and of which he has been an honorary member since 1978. In 1974 he received the Arnold Guyot Memorial Award from the National Geographic Society .

Fonts

  • Studies of Cenozoic vertebrates of western North America , Carnegie Institution, Washington DC, 1938
  • with E. Raymond Hall, John R. Schultz, Chester Stock Studies of Tertiary and Quaternary mammals of North America , Carnegie Institution 1936

literature

  • Robert M. Mengel (Editor) Papers in vertebrate paleontology honoring Robert Warren Wilson , Carnegie Museum of Natural History 1984

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Robert Warren
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilson, Robert W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Oakland , California
DATE OF DEATH 2006