Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould

male, deceased (2002)
Evolutionary biologist, writer, scientist, Jewish American, Books by Stephen Jay Gould, Essayist…paleontology
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also...
Paul Sereno

Paul Sereno

male, 52 years old (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
Suchomimus, From Naperville, Illinois, Jobaria, mailman, Eoraptor, pterosaur…paleontology
Paul Callistus Sereno (born October 11, 1957) is an American paleontologist who is the discoverer of several new dinosaur species on several...
Niles Eldredge

Niles Eldredge

male, 66 years old (New York, United States)
punctuated equilibrium, paleontology, American, Paleontologist, Evolutionary biologist, Columbia University alumni
Dr. Niles Eldredge (born August 25, 1943) is an American paleontologist, who, along with Stephen Jay Gould, proposed the theory of punctuated...
Richard Owen

Richard Owen

male, deceased (1892)
Old Lancastrian, Fellow of the Royal Society, palaeontologist, comparative anatomy, Order of the Bath, Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath…paleontology
Sir Richard Owen KCB (July 20 1804-December 18 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.
Georges Cuvier

Georges Cuvier

male, deceased (1832)
Ichthyologist, malacologist, Death from cholera, zoologist, The Animal Kingdom, Règne animal distribué d'après son organisation…paleontology
Baron Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier was a French naturalist and zoologist. He was the elder brother of Frédéric Cuvier (1773–...
Richard Leakey

Richard Leakey

male, 64 years old
From Nairobi, politician, Archaeologist, Richard Erskine Frere Leakey, Hubbard Medal recipient, paleoanthropologist…paleontology
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (born 19 December 1944 in Nairobi, Kenya), is a Kenyan paleontologist, archaeologist and conservationist. He is the...

Peter Dodson

male
Paleontologist, dinosaur, American, paleontology, sauropod, ceratopsia
Peter Dodson is an American paleontologist who has published many papers and written and collaborated on books about dinosaurs. Dodson described...

Richard Ellis

male
painter, American Cetacean Society, Albany, Western Australia, International Whaling Commission, Denver Museum of Natural History, Sea Dragons Predators of Prehistoric Seas…paleontology
Richard Ellis is a marine biologist. He is a research associate in the American Museum of Natural History's division of paleontology, special...
Mary Anning

Mary Anning

female, deceased (1847)
Paleontologist, fossil, English palaeontologist, paleontology, Breast cancer death, from Lyme Regis
Mary Anning (May 21, 1799 - March 9, 1847) was an early British fossil collector and paleontologist.
Sankar Chatterjee

Sankar Chatterjee

male
prolacertiformes, Texas Tech University faculty, basal archosaur, prolacertiform, Late Triassic, Dockum Group…paleontology
Sankar Chatterjee is a paleontologist, and is the Paul W. Horn Professor of Geosciences at Texas Tech University and Curator of Paleontology at the...