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James Dwight Dana (1813-1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist, and zoologist who made significant contributions...

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J. John Sepkoski Jr. (1948-1999) was an American paleontologist whose research used large fossil databases to study the...

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Louis Agassiz

Louis Agassiz was a Swiss-born American geologist whose work fundamentally shaped our understanding of Earth’s history....

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Raymond Cecil Moore was an American geologist and paleontologist who lived from 1892 to 1974. He is best known for found...

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Eunice Newton Foote was an American scientist whose 1856 experiments examined how gases respond to solar heating. Using...

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Alcide d'Orbigny was a French naturalist and paleontologist whose work on foraminifera helped establish micropaleontolog...

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James Hall

James Hall was an American paleontologist and geologist who lived from 1811 to 1898. He served as the New York State Pal...

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Clarence Edward Dutton

Clarence Edward Dutton (1841–1912) was an American geologist and U.S. Army officer who served with the United States Geo...

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John Horner

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Joseph Tyrrell

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Joachim Barrande was a French geologist and paleontologist who carried out most of his major research in Bohemia, then p...

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Israel Cook Russell

Israel Cook Russell (1852–1906) was an American geologist and geographer who worked extensively with the United States G...

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