Andrew H. Knoll

Andrew Herbert Knoll (born 1951) is an American paleontologist and paleobotanist, who is the Fisher Research Professor of Natural History and of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1951, Andrew Knoll graduated from Lehigh University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1973 and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1977 for a dissertation titled "Studies in Archean and Early Proterozoic Paleontology." Knoll taught at Oberlin College for five years before returning to Harvard in 1982 and teaching there until 2022. At Harvard, he served in the departments of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Earth and Planetary Sciences.