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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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1822 1
Paleontologists
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Adolphe d'Archiac

Earth Sciences

Albert Gaudry

Earth Sciences

Alfred Sherwood Romer

Earth Sciences

Andrew Knoll

Earth Sciences

Arthur Smith Woodward

Earth Sciences

Barnum Brown

Earth Sciences

Carlo Fornasini

Earth Sciences

Charles Barrois

Earth Sciences

Charles Doolittle Walcott

Earth Sciences

Charles Lapworth

Earth Sciences

Charles Schuchert

Earth Sciences

David Meredith Seares Watson

Earth Sciences

Edouard de Verneuil

Earth Sciences

Eduard Suess

Earth Sciences

Edward Drinker Cope

Earth Sciences

Edward Oscar Ulrich

Earth Sciences

Francis John Pettijohn

Earth Sciences

Frank Press

Earth Sciences

G. Arthur Cooper

Earth Sciences

George Gaylord Simpson

Earth Sciences

Georges Cuvier

Earth Sciences
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Gerard Paul Deshayes

Earth Sciences

Gideon Mantell

Earth Sciences

Harry Blackmore Whittington

Earth Sciences

Heinrich Georg Bronn

Earth Sciences

Henry Fairfield Osborn

Earth Sciences

Henry Woodward

Earth Sciences

Hermann von Meyer

Earth Sciences

Hollis Dow Hedberg

Earth Sciences

Hugh Falconer

Earth Sciences

Joachim Barrande

Earth Sciences

John Edward Marr

Earth Sciences

John Phillips

Earth Sciences

John Whitaker Hulke

Earth Sciences

Joseph Burr Tyrrell

Earth Sciences

Karl Alfred von Zittel

Earth Sciences

Kenneth J. Hsu

Earth Sciences

Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck

Earth Sciences

Leonard Johnston Wills

Earth Sciences

Leopold von Buch

Earth Sciences

Manuel Berberian

Earth Sciences

Marcellin Boule

Earth Sciences

Nelson Horatio Darton

Earth Sciences

Nicholas John Shackleton

Earth Sciences

Nicolas Steno

Earth Sciences
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Norman D. Newell

Earth Sciences

Othniel Charles Marsh

Earth Sciences

Peter Martin Duncan

Earth Sciences

Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton

Earth Sciences

Pierre Pruvost

Earth Sciences

Preston Cloud

Earth Sciences

Proby Thomas Cautley

Earth Sciences

Raymond Cecil Moore

Earth Sciences

Richard Owen

Earth Sciences
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Robert Broom

Earth Sciences

Roderick Murchison

Earth Sciences

Roman Kozlowski

Earth Sciences

Roy Chapman Andrews

Earth Sciences

Searles Valentine Wood

Earth Sciences

Shen Kuo

Earth Sciences

Steven M. Stanley

Earth Sciences

Thomas Davidson

Earth Sciences

Thomas Wright

Earth Sciences

Walter Alvarez

Earth Sciences

Walter Hermann Bucher

Earth Sciences

Wendell P. Woodring

Earth Sciences

Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston

Earth Sciences

William Berryman Scott

Earth Sciences

William Buckland

Earth Sciences

William Conybeare

Earth Sciences

William Johnson Sollas

Earth Sciences

William Lonsdale

Earth Sciences

William Smith

Earth Sciences
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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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