Description: There are many highlights in Dr. Steven Stanley’s career that speak to his abilities as an educator, scientist, and thought leader.
Steven M. Stanley, PhD | Paleontologist, Professor | Florida State University, The Smithsonian Institution There are many highlights in Dr. Steven Stanley’s career that speak to his abilities as an educator, scientist, and thought leader. Even 50 years after its publication, his dissertation work is cited about 30 times a year. When “Macroevolution: Pattern and Process” was published in 1979, it had a large impact on both biology and paleontology, a legacy that still stands today. Due to this work, his pic
Dr. Stanley became involved in his profession because he grew up on 24 acres of river land and after reading “The First Book of Stones,” at the age of eight, he motivated to collect rocks and minerals. When 15, a famous medical researcher invited him for a month of mineral collecting in Colorado. The next summer he collected minerals in northern Michigan. For a thesis topic at his boys’ school, Dr. Stanley chose the geological and economic history of Ohio’s Chagrin River Valley where he lived. These experie
At the age of 32, he became the youngest full professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he later founded and chaired a part-time evening master’s program in Environmental Sciences and Policy. Since 1972, Dr. Stanley has been a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution, where he has a laboratory. He has authored many articles in professional journals. His textbook “Principles of Paleontology,” co-authored with David Raup in 1971, changed the way paleontology was taught, and his historical geology