Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould

male, deceased (2002)
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also...
Neil Degrasse Tyson

Neil Degrasse Tyson

male, 51 years old
Neil deGrasse Tyson (b. October 5, 1958 in New York City) is an African American astrophysicist and, since 1996, the Frederick P. Rose Director of...
Niles Eldredge

Niles Eldredge

male, 66 years old (New York, United States)
Dr. Niles Eldredge (born August 25, 1943) is an American paleontologist, who, along with Stephen Jay Gould, proposed the theory of punctuated...
Roy Chapman Andrews

Roy Chapman Andrews

male, deceased (1960)
Roy Chapman Andrews (January 26, 1884-March 11, 1960) was an American explorer, adventurer and naturalist who became the director of the American...
Henry Fairfield Osborn

Henry Fairfield Osborn

male, deceased (1935)
Henry Fairfield Osborn (August 8, 1857-November 6, 1935) was an American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenicist.
George Gaylord Simpson

George Gaylord Simpson

male, deceased (1984)
George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 - October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist. He was an expert on extinct mammals and their...
Barnum Brown

Barnum Brown

male
Barnum Brown (1873-1963), named after the circus showman P.T. Barnum, was perhaps the most famous fossil hunter of the early Twentieth Century....
Douglas Preston

Douglas Preston

male, 53 years old
Douglas Preston (born 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an author of several techno-thriller and horror novels with Lincoln Child. A graduate of...

Richard Ellis

male
Richard Ellis is a marine biologist. He is a research associate in the American Museum of Natural History's division of paleontology, special...