Born This Day (1894): Alfed Sherwood Romer
Summary:
”Romer (Dec. 28, 1894 – Nov. 5, 1973) was director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University until his retirement in 1961 and was one the singularly most influential vertebrate paleontologists of the 20th Century. His work ranged over virtually every conceivable subject within that field, although it was the osteology and taxonomy of the therapsids and other proto-mammals which
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Geographic context:
Location | Country | Latitude | Longitude |
Harvard University | US | 42.3711 | -71.1203 |
Sherwood | US | 45.3599 | -122.843 |
Zoology | IN | 17.7255 | 83.3256 |
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