Andrew H. Knoll

Andrew H. Knoll is the Fisher Professor of Natural History at Harvard University. His research focuses on the early evolution of life, Earth’s early environmental history, and the interconnections between the two. Knoll has also contributed to our understanding of mass extinction, the evolution of life on land, and biomineralization, and he served on the science team for NASA’s MER mission to Mars. Honors include the Walcott and Thompson medals of the US National Academy of Sciences, the Paleontological Society Medal, the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society (London), the Sven Berggren Prize of Royal Physiographic Society, Sweden, and the International Prize for Biology. A member of the US National Academy of Sciences and foreign member of the Royal Society of London, Knoll received the Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science for Life on a Young Planet.