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Neil Shubin

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Neil Shubin
Shubin after speaking at theUniversity of Tulsa
Born(1960-12-22)December 22, 1960(age 63)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,U.S.
Alma materColumbia University(A.B.)
Harvard University(Ph.D.)
Known forDiscovery ofTiktaalik roseae
AwardsMiller Research Fellowship[1]
Guggenheim Fellowship[2]
National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Sciences 2015 Communication Award with Michael Rosenfeld and David Dugan in Film/Radio/TV for "Your Inner Fish"
Scientific career
FieldsEvolutionary biology
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Field Museum of Natural History
ThesisThe morphogenesis and origin of the skeletal pattern of the tetrapod limb(1987)
Websiteuchicago.edu/neil-h-shubin

Neil Shubin(born December 22, 1960) is an Americanpaleontologist,evolutionary biologistandpopular sciencewriter. He is the Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Associate Dean of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and Professor on the Committee of Evolutionary Biology at theUniversity of Chicagoalong with being the Provost of theField Museum of Natural History.[3]He is best known for his co-discovery ofTiktaalik roseaewithTed DaeschlerandFarish Jenkins.[4]

Biography

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Raised in Overbrook Hills section ofLower Merion Township[5](contiguous to City of Philadelphia) and a graduate ofLower Merion High School,[6]Shubin earned a A.B. fromColumbia CollegeofColumbia Universityin 1982 and a Ph.D. in organismic and evolutionary biology fromHarvard Universityin 1987.[7]He also studied at theUniversity of California, Berkeley.[8]

Shubin was elected to theNational Academy of Sciencesin 2011.

Shubin wasABC News' "Person of the Week" in April 2006 whenTiktaalikwas unveiled,[9]and made appearances onThe Colbert ReportJanuary 14, 2008 and January 9, 2013.[10]

The Communication Awards of theNational Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicineawarded a $20,000 prize for excellence in communicating science to the general public to Michael Rosenfeld, David Dugan, and Neil Shubin in Film/Radio/TV on October 14, 2015, forYour Inner Fish.[11]The awards are given to individuals in four categories: books, film/radio/TV, magazine/newspaper and online, and are supported by the W. M. Keck Foundation. Neil Shubin hostedYour Inner Fishon PBS.[12]The show was produced by Windfall Films and Tangled Bank Studios, a production company for theHoward Hughes Medical Institutethat makes materials available for science classroom education.[13]

He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2017.[14]He also served as interim co-director of theMarine Biological Laboratoryin 2017.[15]

Awards and honors

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In 2019, Shubin was named the recipient of the Roy Chapman Andrews Society Distinguished Explorer Award.[16]Shubin was chosen primarily because of his discoveries to understand the origin of organs in the human body and the connectiveness of all life.

Publications

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  • Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body.New York:Pantheon Books,2008.ISBN978-0-375-42447-2
  • The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People.Pantheon Books, New York City 2013.ISBN978-0-307-37843-9[17]
  • Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA.New York: Pantheon Books, 2020.ISBN9781101871331

References

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  1. ^All Miller Fellows Sorted by Term (1987)Archived2013-10-29 at theWayback Machine
  2. ^Neil H. Shubin—John Simon Guggenheim Memorial FoundationArchived2013-12-20 at theWayback Machine
  3. ^"Neil Shubin Home Page".The University of Chicago.Retrieved2008-04-26.
  4. ^Daeschler, Edward B.; Shubin, Neil H.; Jenkins, Farish A. (2006-04-06)."A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan".Nature.440(7085): 757–763.Bibcode:2006Natur.440..757D.doi:10.1038/nature04639.ISSN1476-4687.PMID16598249.
  5. ^"A living fish has genetic clue to the past".www.inquirer.com.28 May 2007.RetrievedDecember 24,2021.
  6. ^"Stars of David Week of 5/17/12".www.jewishexponent.com.20 August 2012.RetrievedDecember 24,2021.[title missing]
  7. ^Alonso, Nathalie (April 2011)."Go Fish - Paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin'82 brings out the fish in all of us".Columbia College Today.RetrievedJuly 19,2020.
  8. ^"Edge: NEIL SHUBIN".Archived fromthe originalon 2013-12-21.Retrieved2010-03-05.
  9. ^"Person of the Week: Neil Shubin",ABC News,Elizabeth Vargas(reporting), April 7, 2006,retrievedApril 8,2012{{citation}}:CS1 maint: others (link)
  10. ^"The Colbert Report".Archived fromthe originalon March 25, 2014.
  11. ^"2015 Communication Awards Ceremony by NAS-Webcast".The New Livestream.Retrieved2015-10-20.
  12. ^Your Inner Fish Miniseries,retrievedNovember 8,2022
  13. ^"Classroom Resources for Your Inner Fish".Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Archived fromthe originalon 2015-12-19.Retrieved2014-04-26.
  14. ^"American Philosophical Society: Newly Elected - April 2017".Archived fromthe originalon 2017-09-15.
  15. ^"UChicago Faculty Members to Serve on MBL Interim Leadership Team".Marine Biological Laboratory.Retrieved2022-07-26.
  16. ^"2019 Roy Chapman Andrews Society Distinguished Explorer Award".Roy Chapman Andrews Society.
  17. ^Universe within, discovering common history,New York Journal of Books
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