The Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal is awarded by the U.S.

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"for meritorious work in zoology or paleontology study published in a three- to five-year period." Named after

Daniel Giraud Elliot Daniel Giraud Elliot (March 7, 1835 – December 22, 1915) was an American zoologist and the founder of the American Ornithologist Union. Life He was born in New York City on March 7, 1835, to George and Rebecca Elliot. In 1858, he married Ann ...

, it was first awarded in 1917.

List of Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal winners

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Günter P. Wagner Günter P. Wagner (born May 28, 1954 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-born evolutionary biologist who is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary biology at Yale University, and head of the Wagner Lab. Education and training After undergraduate e ...

(2018) :For his fundamental contributions to the integration of developmental and evolutionary biology, including his rich and penetrating book ''Homology, Genes and Evolutionary Innovation'', which will orient research in evolutionary developmental biology for decades to come. *

Jonathan B. Losos Jonathan B. Losos (born December 7, 1961, in St. Louis County, Missouri) is an American evolutionary biologist and Herpetologist. Life Losos studied biology at Harvard University, from which he received a Bachelor's degree in 1984. Later on, in 19 ...

(2012) :For his novel and penetrating studies of adaptive radiation in vertebrates, notably his comprehensive study of Anolis lizards in tropical America, as summarized in his recent book, ''Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles'' . * Jennifer A. Clack (2008) :For studies of the first terrestrial vertebrates and the water-to-land transition, as illuminated in her book ''Gaining Ground: The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods'' . * Rudolf A. Raff (2004) :For creative accomplishments in research, teaching, and writing (especially The Shape of Life) that led to the establishment of a new field, evolutionary developmental biology. * Geerat J. Vermeij (2000) :For his extracting major generalizations about biological evolution from the fossil record of a raccoon, by feeling details of shell anatomy that other scientists only see. *

John Terborgh John Whittle Terborgh (born April 16, 1936) is a James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Science at Duke University and Co-Director of the Center for Tropical Conservation. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and for the past thir ...

(1996) :For his research on the ecology, sociobiology, biodiversity, and plant phenology of the tropics, and for his 1992 book, Diversity and the Tropical Rain Forest. * George C. Williams (1992) :For his seminal contributions to current evolutionary thought, including the importance of natural selection and adaptation, and the understanding of sexual reproduction, social behavior, senescence, and disease. *

Jon Edward Ahlquist Jon Edward Ahlquist (27 July 1944 –7 May 2020Jon Edw ...

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Charles G. Sibley Charles Gald Sibley (August 7, 1917 – April 12, 1998) was an American ornithologist and molecular biologist. He had an immense influence on the scientific classification of birds, and the work that Sibley initiated has substantially altered our u ...

(1988) :For their application of DNA hybridization techniques to bird classification which revolutionized taxonomy by showing at last how to distinguish evolutionary relationships from convergent similarities. * G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1984) :For his work as a

limnologist Limnology ( ; from Greek λίμνη, ''limne'', "lake" and λόγος, ''logos'', "knowledge") is the study of inland aquatic ecosystems. The study of limnology includes aspects of the biological, chemical, physical, and geological characteristi ...

, biochemist, ecologist, evolutionist, art historian, ranking among our zoological giants. * G. Arthur Cooper and

Richard E. Grant Richard E. Grant (born Richard Grant Esterhuysen; 5 May 1957) is a Swazi-English actor and presenter. He made his film debut as Withnail in the comedy ''Withnail and I'' (1987). Grant received critical acclaim for his role as Jack Hock in Marie ...

(1979) :For the six-volume treatise on the taxonomy, paleoecology, and evolutionary significance of the West Texas permian brachiopods. * Howard E. Evans (1976) :For his work over a 25-year span on the biology and evolution of behavior in wasps. * Richard D. Alexander (1971) :For his outstanding fundamental work on the systematic, evolution, and behavior of crickets. *

Ernst Mayr Ernst Walter Mayr (; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, Philosophy of biology, philosopher o ...

(1967) :For his treatise, "Animal Species and Evolution". *

George G. Simpson George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 – October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist. Simpson was perhaps the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century, and a major participant in the modern synthesis, contributing ''Tempo a ...

(1965) :For his treatise, "Principles of Animal Taxonomy." * Donald R. Griffin (1958) * P. Jackson Darlington, Jr. (1957) :For his work on Zoogeography: The Geographical Distribution of Animals was the most meritorious work in zoology published during the year. *

Alfred S. Romer Alfred Sherwood Romer (December 28, 1894 – November 5, 1973) was an American paleontologist and biologist and a specialist in vertebrate evolution. Biography Alfred Romer was born in White Plains, New York, the son of Harry Houston Romer an ...

(1956) *

Herbert Friedmann Herbert Friedmann (April 22, 1900 – May 14, 1987) was an American ornithologist. He worked at the Smithsonian Institution for more than 30 years. In 1929 he became a fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) and served as the Presiden ...

(1955) :For his book, The Honey Guides. Dr. Friedman's studies of this little-known African bird clarified several puzzling problems concerning it. * Sven P. Ekman (1953) *

Archie Fairly Carr Archie Fairly Carr, Jr. (June 16, 1909 – May 21, 1987) was an American herpetologist, ecologist, and conservationist. He was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Florida and an acclaimed writer on science and nature. He brought attentio ...

(1952) * Libbie H. Hyman (1951) *

Raymond Carroll Osburn Raymond Carroll Osburn (January 4, 1872 – August 6, 1955) was an American zoologist. Biography Osburn was born on January 4, 1872, in Newark, Ohio. In 1898, he received his bachelor's degree from the Ohio State University, and continued there, ...

(1950) :In recognition of his studies of Bryozoa, particularly for the volume on Bryozoa of the Pacific Coast of America, part 1, published by the University of Southern California. *

Arthur Cleveland Bent Arthur Cleveland Bent (November 25, 1866 – December 30, 1954) was an American ornithologist. He is notable for his encyclopedic 21-volume work, ''Life Histories of North American Birds'', published 1919-1968 and completed posthumously. Bent wa ...

(1949) :For the 17th volume in his series on the Life Histories of the North American Birds, published by the United States National Museum. * Henry B. Bigelow (1948) :For his contributions to marine zoology, particularly for his part as senior author in the volume Fishes of the Western North Atlantic. * John T. Patterson (1947) *

Robert Broom Robert Broom FRS FRSE (30 November 1866 6 April 1951) was a British- South African doctor and palaeontologist. He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1895 and received his DSc in 1905 from the University of Glasgow. From 1903 to 1910, he ...

(1946) :For his volume, The South Africa Fossil Ape-Men, The Australopithecinae, which was published on January 31, 1946, by the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria. *

Sewall Wright Sewall Green Wright FRS(For) Honorary FRSE (December 21, 1889March 3, 1988) was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. He was a founder of population genetics alongsi ...

(1945) :For his fundamental work dealing with the genetics of evolutionary processes—a program based on work over a long period, including his paper "The Differential Equation of the Distribution of Gene Frequencies." *

(1944) :For his work, Tempo and Mode in Evolution, Columbia University Press, 1944. *

Karl S. Lashley Karl Spencer Lashley (June 7, 1890 – August 7, 1958) was a psychologist and behaviorist remembered for his contributions to the study of learning and memory. A ''Review of General Psychology'' survey, published in 2002, ranked Lashley as the 61 ...

(1943) :For his work, "Studies of Cerebral Function in Learning," Journal of Comparative Neurology, 1943, volume 79. *

D'arcy Thompson Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE (2 May 1860 – 21 June 1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar. He was a pioneer of mathematical and theoretical biology, travelled on expeditions to the Bering Strait an ...

(1942) :For his work, On Growth and Form, revised and enlarged, 1942. *

Theodosius Dobzhansky Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky (russian: Феодо́сий Григо́рьевич Добржа́нский; uk, Теодо́сій Григо́рович Добржа́нський; January 25, 1900 – December 18, 1975) was a prominent ...

(1941) :For his work, Genetics and the Origin of Species, second edition published in 1941. *

William Berryman Scott William Berryman Scott (February 12, 1858 – March 29, 1947) 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 P ...

(1940) :For his work, The Mammalian Fauna of the White River Oligocene. Part IV. Artiodactyia. *

John H. Northrop John Howard Northrop (July 5, 1891 – May 27, 1987) was an American biochemist who, with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley, won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award was given for these scientists' isolation, crystal ...

(1939) :For his work, Crystalline Enzymes: The Chemistry of Pepsin, Trypsin, and Bacteriophage. * Malcolm Robert Irwin (1938) :For his work, Immunogenetic Studies of Species Relationships in Columbidae. *

George Howard Parker George Howard Parker (December 23, 1864 – March 26, 1955) was an American zoology, zoologist. He was a professor at Harvard University, Harvard, and investigated the anatomy and physiology of sense organs and animal reactions. Biography George ...

(1937) :For his work "Do Melanophore Nerves Show Antidromic Responses?" Journal of General Physiology, volume 20, July 1937. *

Robert Cushman Murphy The whaling ship, ''Daisy'', which Murphy traveled on to the Antarctic Robert Cushman Murphy (April 29, 1887 – March 20, 1973) was an American ornithologist and Lamont Curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History. He went on numer ...

(1936) *

Edwin H. Colbert Edwin Harris "Ned" Colbert (September 28, 1905 – November 15, 2001)O'Connor, Anahad ''The New York Times'', November 25, 2001. was a distinguished American vertebrate paleontologist and prolific researcher and author. Born in Clarinda, Iowa, he ...

(1935) * Theophilus S. Painter (1934) *

Richard Swann Lull Richard Swann Lull (November 6, 1867 – April 22, 1957) was an American paleontologist and Sterling Professor at Yale University who is largely remembered now for championing a non-Darwinian view of evolution, whereby mutation(s) could unl ...

(1933) * James P. Chapin (1932) :For his work entitled, The Birds of the Belgian Congo, Part I, published as a bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History in 1932. *

Davidson Black Davidson Black, FRS (July 25, 1884 – March 15, 1934) was a Canadian paleoanthropologist, best known for his naming of ''Sinanthropus pekinensis'' (now ''Homo erectus pekinensis''). He was Chairman of the Geological Survey of China and a ...

(1931) *

George E. Coghill George Ellett Coghill (March 17, 1872 – July 23, 1941) was an American philosopher anatomist best known for his work relating neuromuscular system development with movement patterns in embryos. Coghill performed much of the empirical work s ...

(1930) :For his work entitled Correlated Anatomical and Physiological Studies of the Growth of the Nervous System of Amphibia. *

Henry F. Osborn Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. (August 8, 1857 – November 6, 1935) was an American paleontologist, geologist and eugenics advocate. He was the president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years and a cofounder of the American Euge ...

(1929) *

Ernest Thompson Seton Ernest Thompson Seton (born Ernest Evan Thompson August 14, 1860 – October 23, 1946) was an English-born Canadian-American author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians in 1902 (renamed Woodcraft League of America), and one of ...

(1928) :For his work, Lives of Game Animals, Volume 4. * Erik A. Stensiö (1926) :For his work, The Downtonian and Devonian Vertebrates of Spitzbergen, Part I. * Edmund B. Wilson (1925) :For his volume, The Cell in Development and Heredity. *

Henri Breuil Henri Édouard Prosper Breuil (28 February 1877 – 14 August 1961), often referred to as Abbé Breuil, was a French Catholic priest, archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and geologist. He is noted for his studies of cave art in the Somme a ...

(1924) *

Ferdinand Canu Ferdinand Canu (1863–1932) was a French paleontologist and author. In 1923 he was awarded Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal The Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal is awarded by the U.S. United States National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences ...

(1923) :For his work, North American Later Tertiary and Quaternary Bryozoa. * William M. Wheeler (1922) :For his work in entomology, Ants of the American Museum Congo Expedition. *

Bashford Dean Bashford Dean (October 28, 1867 – December 6, 1928) was an American zoologist, specializing in ichthyology, and at the same time an expert in medieval and modern armor. He is the only person to have held concurrent positions at the America ...

(1921) :For his volume in ichthyology, Bibliography of Fishes. *

Othenio Abel Othenio Lothar Franz Anton Louis Abel (June 20, 1875 – July 4, 1946) was an Austrian paleontologist and evolutionary biologist. Together with Louis Dollo, he was the founder of "paleobiology" and studied the life and environment of fossilized or ...

(1920) *

Robert Ridgway Robert Ridgway (July 2, 1850 – March 25, 1929) was an American ornithologist specializing in systematics. He was appointed in 1880 by Spencer Fullerton Baird, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to be the first full-time curator of bird ...

(1919) :For his classic work, Birds of North and Middle America. *

William Beebe Charles William Beebe ( ; July 29, 1877 – June 4, 1962) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer, and author. He is remembered for the numerous expeditions he conducted for the New York Zoological S ...

(1918) * Frank M. Chapman (1917)

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