LISTS

See also Geologists and Zoologists.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Louis Agassiz	Paleontologist	28-May-1807	14-Dec-1873	Ichthyologist at Harvard
Mary Anning	Paleontologist	21-May-1799	9-Mar-1847	Self-taught paleontologist
Robert T. Bakker	Paleontologist	1945		The Dinosaur Heresies
William Buckland	Geologist	12-Mar-1784	15-Aug-1856	Reliquiae Diluvianae
George Busk	Doctor	12-Aug-1807	10-Aug-1886	British surgeon and zoologist
Edward Drinker Cope	Paleontologist	28-Jul-1840	12-Apr-1897	Potential holotype for Homo Sapiens
Georges Cuvier	Zoologist	23-Aug-1769	13-May-1832	Comparative anatomist, paleontologist
Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton	Naturalist	29-May-1716	1-Jan-1800	French comparative anatomist
Thomas Davidson	Paleontologist	17-May-1817	14-Oct-1885	British Fossil Brachiopoda
John William Dawson	Geologist	30-Oct-1820	20-Nov-1899	Air Breathers of the Coal Period
Jacques Amand Deslongchamps	Paleontologist	17-Jan-1794	17-Jan-1867	Discovered Teleosaurus
Niles Eldredge	Paleontologist	25-Aug-1943		Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium
Edward Forbes	Naturalist	12-Feb-1815	18-Nov-1854	History of British Mollusca
Richard Fortey	Paleontologist	1946		Trilobites and graptolites
Stephen Jay Gould	Biologist	10-Sep-1941	20-May-2002	Evolutionary scientist
Joseph Leidy	Biologist	9-Sep-1823	30-Apr-1891	Trichinosis and dinosaurs
Gideon Mantell	Geologist	3-Feb-1790	10-Nov-1852	English paleontologist and geologist
Simon Conway Morris	Paleontologist	6-Nov-1951		Evolutionary paleobiologist
Sir Richard Owen	Naturalist	20-Jul-1804	18-Dec-1892	A History of British Fossil Reptiles
James Parkinson	Doctor	11-Apr-1755	21-Dec-1824	Essay on the Shaking Palsy
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	Philosopher	1-May-1881	10-Apr-1955	The Phenomenon of Man

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