A renowned Yale paleontologist has been honored with an award named after another renowned Yale paleontologist.
Derek Briggs, the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in FAS and former director of the Yale Peabody Museum, is the inaugural winner of the Seilacher Medal —named for the late Adolf Seilacher, who taught at Yale from 1987 to 2009.
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