Krogman, Wilton M(arion) (1903-1987)

US physical anthropologist. His examinations of fossil North American human skeletons ascertained their physical typology and cultural patterns. His later palaeoanthropological studies (1935-45) elucidated human immigrations to Europe via western Asia. He established the Philadelphia Center for Research in Child Growth (1947), and compiled the ‘Philadelphia Standards’ (1947-71), criteria of anatomical measurements applicable to many aspects of paediatric medicine, especially congenital palatal deformities.

Krogman was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He taught at Western Reserve University (1931-38), then at the University of Chicago (1938-47), before joining the University of Pennsylvania (1947-71).