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Nationality
  
United States

Fields
  
Paleontology

Role
  
Paleontologist

Name
  
William Scott


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Born
  
12 February 1859Cincinnati, Ohio (
1859-02-12
)

Alma mater
  
Princeton University (1877)University of Heidelberg (1880)

Known for
  
White River Oligocene monographs

Notable awards
  
Wollaston Medal (1910)Mary Clark Thompson Medal(1930)Penrose Medal (1939)Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal(1940)

Died
  
March 29, 1947, Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Education
  
Heidelberg University, Princeton University

Awards
  
Wollaston Medal, Penrose Medal

Notable students
  
Elmer S. Riggs, James W. Gidley

Books
  
A History of Land Mammals, The Mammalia of the Du, Some Memories of a Pala

Institutions
  
Princeton University

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 Princeton University.

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Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he graduated from Princeton University in 1877 and received a Ph.D. from University of Heidelberg in 1880. He married Alice Adeline Post on December 15, 1883. Scott served as president of The Geological Society of America in 1925.

Awards

  • 1910 Wollaston Medal from the Geological Society of London.
  • 1930 Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.
  • 1939 Penrose Medal from the Geological Society of America.
  • 1940 Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.

    • Publications

  • Scott, William Berryman. "American Elephant Myths," Scribner's, April 1887, 469-478.
  • Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-1899 Princeton, The University, 1901-32 (v. 1, 1903) 8 v. in 13. illus. (part col.) maps (part fold., part col.) tables. 34 cm.
  • Scott, William Berryman. Geological climates, by W.B. Scott.
  • Scott, William Berryman. A history of land mammals in the western hemisphere. Illustrated with 32 plates and more than 100 drawings, by Bruce Horsfall. New York, The MacMillan Company, 1913.
  • Scott, William Berryman. Some memories of a palaeontologist. Princeton, Princeton university press, 1939. 4 p.l., 336 p. front. (port.) 24 cm.
  • Scott, William Berryman, 1858- The osteology and relations of Protoceras. Boston, Ginn & company, 1895. 1 p.l., [303]-374. 3 pl. (2 fold.) diagr. 26 cm.

    • References

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