#  Professor Emeritus AW Crompton 

 



## Positions held

1954-1956: Curator of Paleontology Collections, National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa.  
1956-1964: Director of the South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa;  
 Lecturer, University of Cape Town.  
1964-1970: Professor of Biology and Geology, Yale University;  
 Director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University.  
1970-1982: Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.  
1970-1985: Professor of Biology; Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Harvard University.  
1985-2000: Fisher Professor of Natural History, Harvard University.  
2000-2005: Fisher Research Professor of Natural History.  
2005-Present: Fisher Professor of Natural History Emeritus.

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Fellowships and Awards

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences  
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science  
1976-1977: Guggenheim Fellow  
1983-1984: Guggenheim Fellow  
2012: Simpson/Romer Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Vertebrate Paleontology