William Berryman Scott was an American vertebrate

Vertebrate

Vertebrates are animals that are members of the subphylum Vertebrata . Vertebrates are the largest group of chordates, with currently about 58,000 species described. Vertebrates include the jawless fishes, bony fishes, sharks and rays, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds...

 paleontologist, authority on mammals, and principal author of the White River

White River Fauna

The White River Fauna are fossil animals found in the White River Badlands of South Dakota, Wyoming and Nebraska in the United States including the Badlands National Park. The fossils have been found in the Chadron, Brule, and the Arikaree Formations...

 Oligocene

Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 34 million to 23 million years before the present . As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the period are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are slightly...

 monographs. He was a professor of geology and paleontology at Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

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Born in Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's...

, he graduated from Princeton University in 1877 and received a Ph.D. from University of Heidelberg

Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg

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 in 1880.

He married Alice Adeline Post on December 15, 1883.

Awards

• 1910 Wollaston Medal
  Wollaston Medal
  The Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for geology, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London.The medal is named after William Hyde Wollaston, and was first awarded in 1831...
  
   from the Geological Society of London
  Geological Society of London
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• 1930 Mary Clark Thompson Medal
  Mary Clark Thompson Medal
  The Mary Clark Thompson Medal is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "for most important service to geology and paleontology." Named after Mary Clark Thompson, it was first awarded in 1921.- List of Mary Clark Thompson Medal winners :...
  
   from the National Academy of Sciences
  United States National Academy of Sciences
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• 1939 Penrose Medal
  Penrose Medal
  The Penrose Medal was created in 1927 by R.A.F. Penrose, Jr. as the top prize awarded by the Geological Society of America to those who advance the study of geoscience.-Award winners:* 2011 Paul F. Hoffman* 2010 Eric J. Essene* 2009 B. Clark Burchfiel...
  
   from the Geological Society of America
  Geological Society of America
  The Geological Society of America is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences. The society was founded in New York in 1888 by Alexander Winchell, John J. Stevenson, Charles H. Hitchcock, John R. Proctor and Edward Orton and has been headquartered at 3300 Penrose...
  
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• 1940 Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal
  Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal
  The Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "for meritorious work in zoology or paleontology published in a three- to five-year period." Named after Daniel Giraud Elliot, it was first awarded in 1917....
  
  from the National Academy of Sciences.

Publications

• 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.