Joe Cain, University College London, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003425
1894–1973 American vertebrate palaeontologist and museum director whose textbooks and community leadership shaped his discipline for generations, and who revolutionized the study of fossil reptiles.
Keywords: vertebrate palaeontology; fossils; reptiles; evolution; anatomy
| Further Reading | |
| book Romer A (1933) Vertebrate Paleontology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | |
| book Romer A (1933) Man and the Vertebrates. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | |
| book Colbert E (1982) "Alfred Sherwood Romer". National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs, vol. 53, pp. 264–294. | |
| Rainger R (1993) Biology, geology, or neither, or both: vertebrate paleontology at the University of Chicago, 1892–1950. Perspectives on Science 1: 478–519. | |
| Westoll T and Parrington F (1975) Alfred Sherwood Romer. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society of London 21: 497–516. | |
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