Andrew H. Knoll

Who is this?

Andrew Herbert Knoll (born 1951) is an American paleontologist and paleobotanist, who is the Fisher Research Professor of Natural History and a Research Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1951, Andrew Knoll graduated from Lehigh University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1973 and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1977 for a dissertation titled "Studies in Archean and Early Proterozoic Paleontology." Knoll taught at Oberlin College for five years before returning to Harvard as a professor in 1982. At Harvard, he serves in the departments of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Career

1. 1951
   Born
2. 1987
   Won Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal
3. 1987
   Won Charles Schuchert Award
4. 1991
   Member of National Academy of Sciences
5. 2005
   Won Paleontological Society Medal
6. 2014
   Won Oparin Medal
7. 2015
   Member of Royal Society
8. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
9. Won Guggenheim Fellowship

Trivia

• •Place of birth: West Reading
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: paleontologist, university teacher, botanist