The Romer-Simpson Medal is the highest award issued by the

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) is a professional organization that was founded in the United States in 1940 to advance the science of vertebrate paleontology around the world. Mission and activities SVP has about 2,300 members inte ...

for "sustained and outstanding scholarly excellence and service to the discipline of

vertebrate paleontology Vertebrate paleontology is the subfield of paleontology that seeks to discover, through the study of fossilized remains, the behavior, reproduction and appearance of extinct vertebrates (animals with vertebrae and their descendants). It also t ...

". The award is named in honor of Alfred S. Romer and George G. Simpson.

Past awards

Source
Society for Vertebrate Paleontology
*1987

Everett C. Olson Everett Claire Olson (November 6, 1910 – November 27, 1993) was an American zoologist, paleontologist, and geologist noted for his seminal research of origin and evolution of vertebrate animals. Through his research studying terrestrial verte ...

*1988 Bobb Schaeffer *1989 Edwin H. Colbert *1990

Richard Estes Richard Estes (born May 14, 1932, in Kewanee, Illinois) is an American artist, best known for his photorealist paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes. He is regarded as one of ...

*1991 ''no award'' *1992 Loris S. Russell *1993 Zhou Mingzhen *1994

John H. Ostrom John Harold Ostrom (February 18, 1928 – July 16, 2005) was an American paleontologist who revolutionized the modern understanding of dinosaurs. Ostrom's work inspired what his pupil Robert T. Bakker has termed a " dinosaur renaissance". Begin ...

*1995

Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska Zofia Emilia Kielan-Jaworowska (25 April 1925 – 13 March 2015) was a Polish paleobiologist. In the mid-1960s, she led a series of Polish-Mongolian paleontological expeditions to the Gobi Desert. She was the first woman to serve on the executi ...

*1996 Percy Butler *1997 Colin Patterson *1998 Albert E. Wood *1999 Robert Warren Wilson *2000 John A. Wilson *2001

Malcolm McKenna Malcolm Carnegie McKenna (1930–2008) was an American paleontologist and author on the subject. Paleontologist McKenna began his paleontology career at the Webb School of California (grades 9-12) in Claremont, California, under noted paleontolo ...

*2002 Mary R. Dawson *2003 Rainer Zangerl *2004

Robert L. Carroll Robert "Bob" Lynn Carroll (May 5, 1938 – April 7, 2020) was an American–Canadian vertebrate paleontologist who specialised in Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians and reptiles. Biography Carroll was an only child and grew up on a farm nea ...

*2005 Donald E. Russell *2006 William A. Clemens *2007 Wann Langston, Jr. *2008 Jose Bonaparte *2009 Farish Jenkins *2010 Rinchen Barsbold *2011 Alfred W. Crompton *2012 Philip D. Gingerich *2013

Jack Horner Jack Horner may refer to: *"Little Jack Horner", a nursery rhyme People * Jack Horner (activist) (born 1922), Australian author and activist in the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship * Jack Horner (baseball) (1863–1910), American professional ba ...

*2014 Hans-Peter Schultze *2015 Jim Hopson *2016 Mee-mann Chang *2017 Philip J. Currie *2018 Kay Behrensmeyer *2019 Michael Archer *2020 Jenny Clack *2021 Blaire Van Valkenburgh *2022 David W. Krause

References

Paleontology awards Awards established in 1987 American awards {{sci-award-stub

Past awards

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