Dr. George W. Gill's career highlights include his service as National Geographic Society's scientific leader of the 1981 Easter Island Anthropological Expedition.
LARAMIE, WY, November 15, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present George W. Gill, PhD, with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Gill celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Gill's fascination with the field work and laboratory work, as well as inspirational classroom teaching of his professor of biological anthropology inspired him to pursue a career in anthropology. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in anthropology, a Master of Philosophy in anthropology, and a Bachelor of Arts in zoology, with honors, all obtained from the University of Kansas. He was also a Distinguished Military Graduate from University of Kansas in 1963, at which time he entered the United States Army, served overseas as a combat ranger and tank commander, and earned an honorable discharge with the rank of captain in 1967. That year he received an NDEA fellowship to pursue his graduate studies.
Dr. Gill excavated and studied ancient human skeletons from tropical West Mexico, Easter Island, and the Great Plains of North America. Today these collections form parts of the national museum collections of Mexico and Chile, and of the Wyoming state archaeological repository. As a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) he conducted skeletal identification for law enforcement agencies, and for the United States military. He served as secretary and chairman of the Anthropology section of the AAFS. He was also designated a diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology (ABFA) in 1978, and later served on the board of directors of that national certification board.
Dr. Gill is recognized as a distinguished professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Wyoming. His former roles at the aforementioned university include 40 years of teaching a wide range of courses, and serving as the department chair of anthropology from 1993 to 1996. He also served as director of the Anthropology Museum from 1979 to 1987. However, Dr. Gill considers his role as family man as his most special lifetime achievement.
Over the course of his distinguished career, Dr. Gill received numerous awards, including the J. P. Ellbogen Meritorious Classroom Teaching Award in 1983. He accepted research grants from the University of Wyoming in 1972, 1978, and 1982, in addition to the National Geographic Society, the Center for Field Research, the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, and the World Monuments Fund. He was the co-recipient of a Museum Inventory and Curation grant from the Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau of Reclamation with the Wyoming Department of Transportation's Fish and Wildlife Service. Dr. Gill also received the Outstanding Former Faculty Award from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Wyoming in 2015.
In his professional career, Dr. Gill's proudest achievements are varied and widely diverse. His career highlights include his service as National Geographic Society's scientific leader of the 1981 Easter Island Anthropological Expedition, and his pioneering successes with new approaches in forensic anthropology research, involving new and better ways of assessing ancestry (race) from the human skeleton. His method for quantifying projection of the mid-facial skeleton (useful in ancestry assessment) with an instrument called the simometer has been widely published in basic manuals.
Dr. Gill has also found time for a few hobby interests over the years, and two of these seem to relate to his lifelong interest in basic biology (humans and other species). He has developed a strain of high altitude adapted pole beans in his years of gardening, and in 1998 he also created the Wyoming Mountain Dog breed of high mountain pack dogs by crossing a Norwegian Elkhound male from his champion line with a German Shepherd. Later he also added Alaskan Malamute to finalize the breed's blend of characteristics.
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