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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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Field Established
1822 1
Paleontologists
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Adolphe d'Archiac

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Albert Gaudry

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Alfred Sherwood Romer

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Andrew Knoll

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Arthur Smith Woodward

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Barnum Brown

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Carlo Fornasini

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Charles Barrois

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Charles Doolittle Walcott

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Charles Lapworth

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Charles Schuchert

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David Meredith Seares Watson

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Edouard de Verneuil

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Eduard Suess

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Edward Drinker Cope

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Edward Oscar Ulrich

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Francis John Pettijohn

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Frank Press

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G. Arthur Cooper

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George Gaylord Simpson

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Georges Cuvier

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Gerard Paul Deshayes

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Gideon Mantell

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Harry Blackmore Whittington

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Heinrich Georg Bronn

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Henry Fairfield Osborn

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Henry Woodward

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Hermann von Meyer

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Hollis Dow Hedberg

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Hugh Falconer

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Joachim Barrande

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John Edward Marr

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John Phillips

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John Whitaker Hulke

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Joseph Burr Tyrrell

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Karl Alfred von Zittel

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Kenneth J. Hsu

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Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck

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Leonard Johnston Wills

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Leopold von Buch

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Manuel Berberian

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Marcellin Boule

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Nelson Horatio Darton

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Nicholas John Shackleton

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Nicolas Steno

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Norman D. Newell

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Othniel Charles Marsh

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Peter Martin Duncan

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Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton

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Pierre Pruvost

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Preston Cloud

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Proby Thomas Cautley

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Raymond Cecil Moore

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Richard Owen

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Robert Broom

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Roderick Murchison

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Roman Kozlowski

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Roy Chapman Andrews

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Searles Valentine Wood

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Shen Kuo

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Steven M. Stanley

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Thomas Davidson

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Thomas Wright

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Walter Alvarez

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Walter Hermann Bucher

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Wendell P. Woodring

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Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston

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William Berryman Scott

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William Buckland

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William Conybeare

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William Johnson Sollas

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William Lonsdale

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William Smith

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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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