In 1940 the group was reviewed in detail and every species known at the time described ( and many illustrated ) in an important monograph by Alfred Sherwood Romer and Llewellyn Price.

In July 2007 a species of pre-dinosaur or Dinosauromorpha was named Dromomeron romeri, " the first part meaning ' running femur ,' the latter in honor of paleontologist Alfred Sherwood Romer, a key figure in evolution research ".

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J. Willis Stovall and Wann Langston, Jr. first assigned it to the " Antrodemidae ," the equivalent of Allosauridae, but it was transferred to the taxonomic wastebasket Megalosauridae by Alfred Sherwood Romer in 1956.

Robert E. Sherwood worked with Alfred Hitchcock and Hitchcock's assistant Joan Harrison in Rebecca ( 1940 ).

Thus, Alfred Sherwood Romer proposed it served as a snorkel, Martin Wilfarth that it was an attachment for a mobile proboscis used as a breathing tube or for food gathering, Charles M. Sternberg that it served as an airtrap to keep water out of the lungs, and Ned Colbert that it served as an air reservoir for prolonged stays underwater.

As defined by Alfred Sherwood Romer however, the anthracosaurs include all non-amniote " labyrinthodont " reptile-like amphibians, and Säve-Söderbergh's definition is more equivalent to Romer's suborder Embolomeri.

From there he went to Harvard University where he studied biology and paleontology under Alfred Sherwood Romer.

He was born George Sherwood Eddy on January 19, 1871 to George Alfred Eddy and Margaret Louise Nolan at Leavenworth, Kansas.

The traditional explanation is the " shrinking waterhole hypothesis " or " desert hypothesis " posited by the American paleontologist Alfred Romer.

In modern times, Alfred Romer ( 1894 – 1973 ) wrote what has been termed the definitive textbook on the subject, called Vertebrate Paleontology.

Until the advent of genetic techniques like DNA sequencing, comparative anatomy together with embryology were the primary tools for understanding phylogeny, as exemplified by the work of Alfred Romer.

It was not until 1956 that Theropoda came back into use as a taxon containing the carnivorous dinosaurs and their descendants, when Alfred Romer re-classified the Order Saurischia into two suborders, Theropoda and Sauropoda.

American paleontologist Alfred Romer wrote that, " little slips from virtue were those we might make ourselves, were we bolder ".

In 1940, Alfred Romer and Llewellyn Ivor Price proposed that the sail served a thermoregulatory function, allowing individuals to warm their bodies with the sun's heat.

Alfred Romer was born in White Plains, New York, and studied at Amherst College and Columbia University, graduating with a doctorate in zoology in 1921.

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Romer's gap is named after paleontologist Dr. Alfred Romer, who first recognised it.

Alfred Romer indicated that the anamniote / amniote divide may not has been very sharp, leaving the question of the actual mode of reproduction of these large animals unanswered.

* Romer Prize ( after Alfred Romer )

Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.

In Berkshire, a successful skirmish at the Battle of Englefield on 31 December 870 was followed by a severe defeat at the siege and Battle of Reading by Ivar's brother Halfdan Ragnarsson on 5 January 871 ; then, four days later, Alfred won a brilliant victory at the Battle of Ashdown on the Berkshire Downs, possibly near Compton or Aldworth.

* Nobel Prizes awarded ( December 10 ) on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.

Alfred Damon Runyon ( October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946 ) was an American newspaperman and author.

On 10 December 1896, Alfred Nobel died in his villa in San Remo, Italy, from a cerebral haemorrhage.

In December 1994, McVeigh and Fortier visited Oklahoma City to inspect their target: the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

* December 28 – Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War I fighter ace ( b. 1892 )

* December 4 – Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1997 )

* December 22 – Alfred J. Ferrara, American baseball player

* December 10 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.

* December 12 – Alfred Werner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1919 )

* December 10 – The premiere of Alfred Jarry's absurdist play Ubu Roi in Paris causes a near-riot.

* December 10 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite and creator of the Nobel Prize ( b. 1833 )

* December 2 – Alfred Enoch, British actor

* December 12 – Alfred Abel, German actor ( b. 1879 )

* December 10 – Jessie Aspinall, Australian doctor, first female junior medical resident at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital ( d. 1953 )

* December 6 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, American photojournalist ( d. 1995 )

* December 22 – Dreyfus Affair: French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of treason.

* December 27 – Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War I flying ace ( d. 1917 )

* December 27 – Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier ( b. 1881 )

* December 11 – Alfred de Musset, French poet ( d. 1857 )

In December 1850, Tubman received a warning that her niece Kessiah was going to be sold ( along with her two children, six-year-old James Alfred, and baby Araminta ) in Cambridge.

Massamba-Débat, whose powers had been curtailed by the CNR, resigned on September 4, and Prime Minister Alfred Raoul served as acting head of state until December 31, 1968, when the CNR formally became the country's supreme authority and Ngouabi, as head of the CNR, assumed the presidency.

Alfred North Whitehead, OM FRS ( 15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947 ) was an English mathematician and philosopher.

She became engaged to engineer and novelist Arthur Gundaccar Freiherr von Suttner ( who died on 10 December 1902 ), but his family opposed the match, and she answered an advertisement from Alfred Nobel in 1876 to become his secretary-housekeeper at his Paris residence.