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| 1 | Richard Harlan |
| Richard Harlan (September 19, 1796 - September 30, 1843) was an American naturalist, zoologist, physicist and paleontologist ... | |
| 2 | John Bell Hatcher |
| John Bell Hatcher (October 11, 1861 - July 3, 1904) was an American paleontologist most famous for discovering the triceratops. Born in Cooperstown, Illinois, Hatcher matriculated at Grinnell... were discovered by the great paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh, who invited him to a paleontological ... | |
| 3 | Gould |
| Gould may refer to several people: Chester Gould, creator of Dick Tracy Elliott Gould, actor Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist Jay Gould, American financier Stephen Jay Gould - American paleontologist and writer of popular science William Gould, English cleric and naturalist ... | |
| 4 | Louis Lartet |
| Louis Lartet (1840 - 1899), French geologist and paleontologist, discovered the original Cro-Magnon skeletons. Born the son of Edouard Lartet in Séissan in the departement of Gers, he continued his father's researches ... | |
| 5 | George Gaylord Simpson |
| George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 - October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist. He was an expert on extinct mammals and their intercontinental migrations. Simpson was the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century and a major participant in the Modern synthesis. He was ... | |
| 6 | Charles Doolittle Walcott |
| Charles Doolittle Walcott (March 31, 1850 – February 9, 1927) was a American paleontologist. He served as head of the US Geological Survey and later became Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution after the death of Samuel Pierpont Langley, holding the latter post until his own death. He ... | |
| 7 | 1852 in science |
| Deaths January 6 - Louis Braille, inventor (* 1809) November 10 - Gideon Mantell, paleontologist ... | |
| 8 | Alexander Keyserling |
| Alexander Friedrich Michael Lebrecht Nikolaus Arthur, graf von Keyserling (August 15, 1815 - May 8, 1891) was a German geologist and paleontologist. He is considered to be one of the founders of Russian geology, making many expeditions on behalf of Tsar Nicholas I ... | |
| 9 | Björn Kurtén |
| Björn Kurtén (1924-1988) was a distinguished vertebrate paleontologist. He belonged to the Finland-Swedish minority in Finland. He was also the author of an acclaimed series of books about modern man's encounter with Neanderthals, such as Dance of the Tiger (1978, 1980). When asked what genre ... | |
| 10 | Gelnaw's Law |
| Gelnaw's law states that "nature tends towards maximum irony" and has also been used as saying "any situation will tend towards maximum irony." It is a corollary of Finagle's Law and of Murphy's Law and was first quoted by Californian paleontologist William Gelnaw refering to the sometimes ... | |
| 11 | Hatcher |
| Several people are known by the name of Hatcher : Charles Edwin Hatcher -- U.S. soul singer aka Edwin Starr Claud A. Hatcher -- U.S. pharmacist and soft drink developer (R.C. Cola) Derian Hatcher -- U.S. hockey player Gene Hatcher -- U.S. boxer John Bell Hatcher --U.S. paleontologist, discoverer ... | |
| 12 | International Commission on Stratigraphy |
| and open debate amongst paleontologists ... | |
| 13 | Joseph Leidy |
| Joseph Leidy (1823 - 1891) was an American paleontologist. Leidy was professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania and later he was professor of natural history at Swarthmore College. His book Extinct Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska (1869) contained many species not previously described and ... | |
| 14 | MYA |
| MYA is an acronym used by geologists and paleontologists for "Million Years Ago". Other less than obvious abbreviations that might be encountered in similar contexts are BP (Before Present), TYA (Thousand years ago), GYA (Gigayears ago -- i.e a thousand million years), BCE (Before Common Era = BC ... | |
| 15 | 1784 in science |
| , geologist and paleontologist (died 1856) Deaths September 4 - César-François Cassini de Thury ... |