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William Berryman Scott1858—1947

U.S. paleontologist (1858–1947)

沃拉斯顿奖章 1910

William Berryman Scott was an American vertebrate paleontologist, authority on mammals, and principal author of the White River Oligocene monographs. He was a professor of geology and paleontology at Princeton University.

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出生: 1858 年 2 月 12 日，辛辛那提
逝世: 1947 年 3 月 29 日，普林斯顿
国籍: 美国
学科: 生物学、地球科学、博物与综合
职业: 古生物学家、大学教师、动物学家、地质学家
母语 / 工作语言: 英语、德语
母校: 普林斯顿大学、海德堡大学
工作单位: 普林斯顿大学

研究领域

动物学古生物学

所获奖项（5）

1910沃拉斯顿奖章
1926海登纪念地质学奖
1930玛丽·克拉克·汤普森奖章
1939彭罗斯奖章得主列表
1940丹尼尔·吉罗·埃利奥特奖

学会与院士

美国文理科学院美国国家科学院美国哲学会

百科正文

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Family and education

Scott was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on February 12, 1858, the son of Mary Elizabeth Hodge Scott and William McKendree Scott, a Presbyterian minister. He was the youngest of three sons; his brother Hugh Lenox Scott went on to become superintendent of West Point and Army Chief of Staff. Shortly after the family moved to Princeton, New Jersey in 1861, his father died and the family lived with his maternal grandfather who was also a Presbyterian minister and an instructor at the Princeton Theological Seminary.

His early education focused on theology, philosophy and the classics in preparation for an expected career as a minister. However, when he entered Princeton University in 1873 at the age of fifteen, he became interested in science, especially geology, psychology, and chemistry. A course he took from the renowned Swiss geologist Arnold Guyot was a turning point in his career aspirations. He graduated from Princeton in 1877 and received a Ph.D. from University of Heidelberg in 1880. He married Alice Adeline Post on December 15, 1883.

He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1886.