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 inter ...

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 animals with vertebrae or a notochord. It also tries to connect, by us ...

". The award is named in honor of

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 ...

and George G. Simpson.

Past awards

Source
Society for Vertebrate Paleontology
*1987 Everett C. Olson *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 *1995

Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska Zofia 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 executive commit ...

*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 8, 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 ne ...

*2005 Donald E. Russell *2006 William A. Clemens *2007 Wann Langston, Jr. *2008

Jose Bonaparte Jose is the English transliteration of the Hebrew and Aramaic name ''Yose'', which is etymologically linked to ''Yosef'' or Joseph. The name was popular during the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods. * Jose ben Abin * Jose ben Akabya *Jose the Galile ...

*2009

Farish Jenkins Farish Alston Jenkins (May 19, 1940 – November 11, 2012) was a professor at Harvard University who studied and taught paleontology. His discoveries included a transitional creature with characteristics of both fish and land animals — ''Tiktaa ...

*2010

Rinchen Barsbold , Rinchyengiin Barsbold, born December 21, 1935 in Ulaanbaatar) is a Mongolian paleontologist and geologist. He works with the Institute of Geology, at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. He is an expert in vertebrate paleontology and Mesozoic stratigraphy. Bar ...

*2011 Alfred W. Crompton *2012

Philip D. Gingerich Philip Dean Gingerich (born March 23, 1946) is a paleontologist and educator. He is Professor Emeritus of Geology, Biology, and Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He directed the Museums at the University of Michigan#Museum ...

*2013 Jack Horner *2014 Hans-Peter Schultze *2015 Jim Hopson *2016 Mee-mann Chang *2017 Philip J. Currie *2018 Kay Behrensmeyer *2019 Michael ArcherCarroll, Lucy (15 Oct 2019
Society awards top honour to UNSW palaeontologist
''Newsroom''. University of New South Wales *2020

Jenny Clack Jennifer Alice Clack, (''née'' Agnew; 3 November 1947 – 26 March 2020) was an English palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist. She specialised in the early evolution of tetrapods, specifically studying the "fish to tetrapod" transition: ...

*2021

Blaire Van Valkenburgh Blaire Van Valkenburgh is an American paleontologist and holds the Donald R. Dickey Chair in Vertebrate Biology in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of California Los Angeles. She is a former president of Society of ...

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

Past awards

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