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October 8, 2001
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Noted Paleobiologist J. William Schopf to Speak at Smith

 

NORTHAMPTON, Mass.-J. William Schopf, director of UCLA's Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life and professor of paleobiology in UCLA's department of earth and space sciences, will give a lecture at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 15, in McConnell Auditorium at Smith College. The title of Schopf's talk is "Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils: Solution to Darwin's Dilemma."


Discoverer of the oldest fossils known, Schopf is the author of two books-including "Cradle of Life," winner of the 2000 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science-as well as the editor of seven volumes of which two are prize-winning monographs on early evolution.


Schopf is president of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, as well as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the recipient of numerous medals awarded by scientific organizations, was twice a Guggenheim fellow and in 1997-98 served as a Humboldt fellow in Germany.


Schopf's talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the environmental science and policy program and departments of biological sciences and geology at Smith College and by the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars Program.


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