The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
George G. Simpson
Title:
Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology
Affiliation:
Harvard University
Cambridge,Massachusetts USA
Gender:
Male
Year Deceased:
1984
Award Discipline:
Biological Sciences
Award Year:
1965
Citation:
"For penetrating studies of vertebrate evolution through geologic time, and for scholarly synthesis of a new understanding of organic evolution based upon genetics and paleontology."
Presented by President Johnson at a White House ceremony on February 10, 1966.