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List Of Paleontologists
This is a list of notable paleontologists who have made significant contributions to the field of paleontology. Only paleontologists with biographical articles in Wikipedia are listed here. A * Othenio Abel (Austria, 1875-1946) * William Abler (United States) * Karel Absolon (Czech Republic, 1877-1960) * Louis Agassiz (Switzerland / United States, 1807-1873) * Emiliano Aguirre (Spain, 1925-2021) * Per E. Ahlberg (Sweden) * Gustava Aigner (Austria, 1906-1987) * Luis Alcalá (Spain) * Truman H. Aldrich (United States, 1848-1932) * Richard Aldridge (England, 1945-2014) * Annie Montague Alexander (Kingdom of Hawaii / United States, 1867-1950) * John Alroy (United States / Australia, 1966- ) * Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii (Russia, 1860-1917) * Carlos Ameghino (Argentina, 1865-1936) * Florentino Ameghino (Argentina, 1854-1911) * Charles Anderson (mineralogist), Charles Anderson (Scotland / Australia, 1876-1944) * Elaine Anderson (United States, 1936-2002) * Johan Gunnar Andersson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paleontology
Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure geologic time, and assess the interactions between prehistoric organisms and their natural environment. While paleontological observations are known from at least the 6th century BC, the foundation of paleontology as a science dates back to the work of Georges Cuvier in 1796. Cuvier demonstrated evidence for the concept of extinction and how life of the past was not necessarily the same as that of the present. The field developed rapidly over the course of the following decades, and the French word ''paléontologie'' was introduced for the study in 1822, which was derived from the Ancient Greek word for "ancient" and words describing relatedness and a field of study. Further advances in the field accompanied the work of Charles Darwin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaine Anderson
Elaine Anderson (January 8, 1936 – March 26, 2002) was an American paleontologist. She is best known for her work on vertebrate paleontology. Biography Elaine Anderson was born in Salida, Colorado, on January 8, 1936. She was the only child of John and Edith Anderson. She was raised in Denver, Colorado. Anderson graduated from the University of Colorado in 1960. She completed her Master's thesis in 1965. For her Ph.D., she opted to go to Finland, becoming the first Fulbright Scholar to do so. She studied under the Finnish paleontologist Björn Kurtén, then one of the most distinguished authorities on studies on prehistoric mammals. Anderson returned to the United States after completing her Ph.D. and worked as a scientific consultant at the Pleistocene Hall at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. She also worked briefly at the Idaho Museum of Natural History (then known as the Idaho State University Museum of Natural History) and the Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Arambourg
Camille Arambourg (February 3, 1885 – November 19, 1969) was a French vertebrate paleontologist. He conducted extensive field work in North Africa. In the 1950s, he argued against the prevailing model of Neanderthals as brutish and simian. During World War 1, he was in Military service. After that he was a professor of Geology at the Institut Agricole d'Alger, and after that a professor of Paleontology at Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ..., where he succeeded his teacher Marcellin Boule. The pterosaur '' Arambourgiania'' is named after him. He was President of the PanAfrican Archaeological Association from 1959 to 1963. Publications * (1942) "L’ Elephas recki Dietrich. Exposition systématique et ses affinit� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Applin
Esther Applin ( Richards; November 24, 1895 – July 23, 1972) was an American geologist and paleontologist. She completed her undergraduate degree in 1919 from the University of California, Berkeley. Later, she completed a master's degree which was focused on microfossils. She was a leading figure in the use of microfossils to determine the age of rock formation for use in oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico region. Her job was to examine microfossils collected in drill holes (especially foraminifera) to determine the age of the rock into which the company was drilling. Applin's discoveries were crucial to successful drilling operations across the entire oil industry. Additionally, her contribution to geology and the study of micropaleontology was pivotal in earning women geologists respect in the field. Early life and education Applin was born as Esther Richards on November 24, 1895 in Newark, Ohio, to Gary Richards, a civil engineer with the United States Army, and Jenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Telles Antunes
Dr. Miguel Telles Antunes (born 11 January 1937) is a Portuguese academic, specializing in paleontology, zooarchaeology, and geology. Antunes is a ranking member of various institutions, including the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, Nova University of Lisbon, and the Lourinhã Museum of Ethnology and Archaeology. Antunes is the namesake of the scientific names of multiple species, from dinosaurs to insects, owing to his preeminence as the field of paleontology and archaeology, the most notable of which is the '' Lourinhanosaurus antunesi'', a theropod dinosaur of the late Jurassic period. Career Antunes is a ranking member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, Portugal's most eminent scientific scholarly society, Antunes serves as the director of the academy's Maynense Museum. Antunes is a professor at the Nova University of Lisbon, where he previously served as chair of Nova's Sciences and Technology Department. Antunes serves as a curator and member of Scientific Council of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Anning
Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was an English fossil collector, fossil trade, dealer, and palaeontologist. She became known internationally for her discoveries in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis in the county of Dorset, South West England, Southwest England. Anning's findings contributed to changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the Historical geology, history of the Earth. Anning searched for fossils in the area's Blue Lias and Charmouth Mudstone Formation, Charmouth Mudstone cliffs, particularly during the winter months when landslides exposed new fossils that had to be collected quickly before they were lost to the sea. Her discoveries included the first correctly identified ichthyosaur skeleton when she was twelve years old; the first two nearly complete plesiosaur skeletons; the first pterosaur skeleton located outside Germany; and fish fossils. Her observations played a key role in the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernesto Pérez D'Angelo
Ernesto Pérez d'Angelo (1932 – 2013) was a Chilean geologist and paleontologist. He is known for his contributions to the development of paleontology in Chile. His contributions include the organizing of paleontology libraries and fossil collections and the description of numerous new taxa of the Mesozoic The Mesozoic Era is the Era (geology), era of Earth's Geologic time scale, geological history, lasting from about , comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Period (geology), Periods. It is characterized by the dominance of archosaurian r .... From 1986 to 1997 he was editor of Revista Geológica de Chile. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Perez d'Angelo, Ernesto 20th-century Chilean geologists Chilean paleontologists Paleozoologists 1932 births 2013 deaths People from Punta Arenas 20th-century zoologists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Angela
Alberto Angela (; born 8 April 1962) is an Italian paleontologist, television host, journalist, and writer. Angela is a famous history and science communicator in Italy. Biography Angela was born in Paris, France, where his father worked as correspondent for RAI. He accompanied his father, Italian TV announcer Piero Angela, on his trips ever since he was a child, something that allowed him to learn many European languages and to acquire a cosmopolitan culture. After being a student in France, he enrolled in a course of Natural Sciences at the University " La Sapienza" of Rome, finally graduating with 110/110 and a prize for his thesis. He also studied at multiple American universities, where he took courses of specialisation from Harvard, Columbia, and UCLA and further focused on palaeontology and paleoanthropology. Once out of university he started working in the research field participating in paleoanthropologic digs in various places in the world, among which Zaire, Ish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov
Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov (; ; 19 December 1861 – 27 April 1924) was a Russian geologist, stratigrapher, and palaeontologist. Biography He was born in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Odesa, Ukraine). He studied geology and zoology at the Novorossiya University in Odessa. He then traveled across the Russian Empire and central Europe to collect fossil specimens. The Challenger expedition of 1872–1876 studied processes of the sea floor. In 1889, Andrusov published a review of this expedition in Gornyi zhurnal (Mining Journal). He would later perform studies of the geology and sediments of the Ponto-Caspian steppe. From 1890 to 1891, he participated in a deep water expedition to the Black Sea by the Russian Geographical Society. This expedition discovered hydrogen sulfide in the lower portions of this sea. Andrusov was the first to propose that this substance was created by biological decomposition of life forms (bacteria) containing sulfurous compounds. He was married to Nad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Chapman Andrews
Roy Chapman Andrews (January 26, 1884 – March 11, 1960) was an American explorer, adventurer, and Natural history, naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History. He led a series of expeditions through the politically disturbed China of the early 20th century into the Gobi Desert and Mongolia. The expeditions made important discoveries and brought the first-known fossil dinosaur Dinosaur egg, eggs to the museum. Chapman's popular writing about his adventures made him famous. Biography Early life and education Andrews was born on January 26, 1884, in Beloit, Wisconsin. As a child, he explored forests, fields, and waters nearby, developing marksmanship skills. He taught himself taxidermy and used funds from this hobby to pay tuition to Beloit College. After graduating, Andrews applied for work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He so much wanted to work there that after being told that there were no openings at his level, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahala Andrews
Mahala Andrews (9 February 1939 – 27 October 1997) was a British vertebrae palaeontologist who worked for the National Museum of Scotland. Early years and education Andrews was born Sheila Mahala Andrews on 9 February 1939 in Beckenham, London. She was the only child of crafts teacher, Mahala Humphrey, and GPO overseer, Alfred J. R. Andrews. Andrews moved to Sydenham, London with her mother after her father died in 1941. She graduated from Girton College, Cambridge in 1960 with a BSc in zoology. Later years and career After graduating from Cambridge, she worked for seven years as a research assistant to geology professor Thomas Stanley Westoll at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Andrews then returned to Girton College at Cambridge to complete her PhD thesis on fossil lobe-finned fish and also co-authored a paper on the subject in 1970. She was appointed as the Senior Scientific Officer in the Department of Geology at the Royal Scottish Museum (now the National Museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Nathaniel Andrews
Henry Nathaniel Andrews, Jr. (born June 15, 1910, Melrose, Massachusetts; d. March 3, 2002 Concord, New Hampshire) was an American paleobotanist recognized as an expert in plants of the Devonian and Carboniferous periods. He was a fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was elected into the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1975. He was a professor at the Washington University in St. Louis from 1940 to 1964 and a paleobotanist at the Missouri Botanical Garden 1947 to 1964. From 1964 until his retirement 1975, Andrews worked at the University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university system with its main campus in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two benefactors. In 1893, ..., where he served as head of the school's Botany department and later as head of the Systematics and Enviro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
