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Paleontologists

This group collects the Earth Sciences subcategory's members whose defining work concerns paleontology: the study of fossils and prehistoric life, from the founders who first described dinosaur and extinct-mammal fossils to modern paleobiologists working on the history of life recorded in rock. It is kept apart from this atlas's separate Life Sciences subcategory, whose members work primarily on living organisms rather than the fossil record.

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Adolphe d'Archiac

Earth Sciences
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Albert Gaudry

Earth Sciences
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Alfred Sherwood Romer

Earth Sciences
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Andrew Knoll

Earth Sciences
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Arthur Smith Woodward

Earth Sciences
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Barnum Brown

Earth Sciences
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Carlo Fornasini

Earth Sciences
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Charles Barrois

Earth Sciences
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Charles Doolittle Walcott

Earth Sciences
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Charles Lapworth

Earth Sciences
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Charles Schuchert

Earth Sciences
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David Meredith Seares Watson

Earth Sciences
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Edouard de Verneuil

Earth Sciences
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Eduard Suess

Earth Sciences
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Edward Drinker Cope

Earth Sciences
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Edward Oscar Ulrich

Earth Sciences
1 link

Francis John Pettijohn

Earth Sciences
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Frank Press

Earth Sciences
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G. Arthur Cooper

Earth Sciences
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George Gaylord Simpson

Earth Sciences
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Georges Cuvier

Earth Sciences
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Gérard Paul Deshayes

Earth Sciences
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Gideon Mantell

Earth Sciences
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Harry Blackmore Whittington

Earth Sciences
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Heinrich Georg Bronn

Earth Sciences
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Henry Fairfield Osborn

Earth Sciences
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Henry Woodward

Earth Sciences
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Hermann von Meyer

Earth Sciences
1 link

Hollis Dow Hedberg

Earth Sciences
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Hugh Falconer

Earth Sciences
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Joachim Barrande

Earth Sciences
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John Edward Marr

Earth Sciences
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John Phillips

Earth Sciences
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John Whitaker Hulke

Earth Sciences
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Joseph Burr Tyrrell

Earth Sciences
1 link

Karl Alfred von Zittel

Earth Sciences
1 link

Kenneth J. Hsu

Earth Sciences
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Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck

Earth Sciences
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Leonard Johnston Wills

Earth Sciences
1 link

Leopold von Buch

Earth Sciences
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Manuel Berberian

Earth Sciences
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Marcellin Boule

Earth Sciences
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Nelson Horatio Darton

Earth Sciences
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Nicholas John Shackleton

Earth Sciences
1 link

Nicolas Steno

Earth Sciences
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Norman D. Newell

Earth Sciences
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Othniel Charles Marsh

Earth Sciences
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Peter Martin Duncan

Earth Sciences
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Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton

Earth Sciences
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Pierre Pruvost

Earth Sciences
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Preston Cloud

Earth Sciences
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Proby Thomas Cautley

Earth Sciences
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Raymond Cecil Moore

Earth Sciences
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Richard Owen

Earth Sciences
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Robert Broom

Earth Sciences
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Roderick Murchison

Earth Sciences
1 link

Roman Kozlowski

Earth Sciences
1 link

Roy Chapman Andrews

Earth Sciences
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Searles Valentine Wood

Earth Sciences
1 link

Shen Kuo

Earth Sciences
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Steven M. Stanley

Earth Sciences
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Thomas Davidson

Earth Sciences
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Thomas Wright

Earth Sciences
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Walter Alvarez

Earth Sciences
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Walter Hermann Bucher

Earth Sciences
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Wendell P. Woodring

Earth Sciences
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Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston

Earth Sciences
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William Berryman Scott

Earth Sciences
2 links

William Buckland

Earth Sciences
4 links

William Conybeare

Earth Sciences
3 links

William Johnson Sollas

Earth Sciences
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William Lonsdale

Earth Sciences
2 links

William Smith

Earth Sciences
2 links
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Paleontology
WikipediaPaleontology, Etymology and history section, Blainville sentence
Quote, Paleontology, Etymology and history section, Blainville sentence
It was in 1822 that Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, a former student of Cuvier, introduced the name paleontologie for the study of these ancient beings.
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