| LC control no. | n 79145193 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Romer, Alfred Sherwood, 1894-1973 |
| Variant(s) | Romer, Alfred S. (Alfred Sherwood), 1894-1973 |
| Birth date | 1894-12-28 |
| Death date | 1973-11-05 |
| Place of birth | White Plains (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Vertebrate evolution |
| Affiliation | University of Chicago Harvard University Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology |
| Profession or occupation | Paleontologists Biologists College teachers |
| Found in | The locomotor apparatus of ... reptiles. His The vertebrate body, 1985: CIP t.p. (Alfred Sherwood Romer; Late Alexander Agassiz Prof. of Zoology, Emeritus, Harvard Univ.) Obituaries on file, 1979 (Alfred S. Romer; d. 11/5/73) Wikipedia, February 28, 2019 (Alfred Romer; Alfred Sherwood Romer (December 28, 1894--November 5, 1973) was an American paleontologist and biologist and a specialist in vertebrate evolution; he was born in White Plains, New York; he studied at Amherst College, achieving a Bachelor of Science Honours degree in biology, and Columbia University, pursuing a M.Sc in Biology and graduating with a doctorate in zoology in 1921; Romer joined the department of geology and paleontology at the University of Chicago as an associate professor in 1923; in 1934 he was appointed professor of biology at Harvard University; in 1946, he also became director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology) |
| Associated language | eng |
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