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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.

 

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