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Re: 152nd anniversary of G. A. Mantell's death and the short list of most important persons in the history of discovering fossils
No Richard Owen?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vladimír Socha" <Seismosaurus@seznam.cz>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 8:05 PM
Subject: 152nd anniversary of G. A. Mantell's death and the short list of most
important persons in the history of discovering
fossils
> Good day!
> I'm sorry, but I just can't resist creating statistics, schemes, lists, etc.
> I've tryed to make a short list of the most (?)
important persons in the history of geology and paleontology (+ collecting
fossils and/or studying strata before the 19th Century).
Included are only persons that aren't alive already. The order is according to
the date of birth. I'm well awared of the fact, that
this is a subjective selection and therefore any addings, corrections etc. are
greatly appreciated. I also wasn't able to find a
data for some persons, so please feel free to react. Vlad
> P.S. Please excuse the (Europian?) habit of placing the number of days in
> front of months.
>
>
> Anaximander of Miletus 610-545/6 BCE
>
> Xenophanes of Colophon 570-470/8 BCE
>
> Empedocles of Agragas 492(484)-432(424) BCE
>
> Chang Qu 4th Century BCE (?)
>
> Strabon 64-19(23,4,6) BCE
>
> Pliny the Elder (Plinius Secundus) 23-79 CE
>
> Fa Hsien 337-422 CE
>
> St. Augustine (A. Augustinus) 13 Nov 354 - 28 Aug 430
>
> Ibn Sina (Avicenna) 980 - 1037
>
> Albertus Magnus 1193 (1206) - 15 November 1280
>
> Giovanni Boccaccio 1313 - 21 December 1375
>
> Leonardo Da Vinci 15 April 1452 - 2 May 1519
>
> Konrad von Gessner 26 March 1516 - 13 December 1565
>
> Athanasius Kircher 2 May 1601/2 - 28 November 1680
>
> John Ray 1627 - 1705
>
> Robert Hooke 18 June 1635 - 3 March 1703
>
> Nicolaus Steno January 1638 - 1686
>
> Robert Plot December 1640 - 30 April 1696
>
> Edward Lhuyd 1660 - 1709
>
> John Woodward 1665 - 1718
>
> Johann Jakob Scheuchzer 1672 - 1733
>
> Georges L. de Buffon 7 September 1707 - 16 April 1788
>
> James Hutton 3 June 1726 - 26 March 1797
>
> Jean Baptiste Robinet 1735 - 1820
>
> Charles Wilson Peale 1741 - 1827
>
> Jean Baptiste Lamarck 1 August 1744 - 28 December 1829
>
> James Parkinson 11 April 1755 - 21 December 1824
>
> Kaspar Maria von Sternberg 6 Jan 1761 - 10 Feb 1832/8
>
> William Smith 23 March 1769 - 28 August 1839
>
> Georges Cuvier 23 August 1769 - 13 May 1832
>
> Georg August Goldfuss 18 April 1782 - 2 October 1848
>
> William Buckland 12 March 1784 - 24 August 1856
>
> William D. Conybeare 7 June 1787 - 12 August 1857
>
> Gideon A. Mantell 3 February 1790 - 10 November 1852
>
> Edward Hitchcock 24 May 1793 - 27 February 1864
>
> Charles Lyell 14 November 1797 - 22 February 1875
>
> Searless V. Wood 14 February 1798 - 26 October 1880
>
> Mary Anning 21 May 1799 - 9 March 1847
>
> Joachim Barrande 11 August 1799 - 5 October 1883
>
> Ch. E. H. von Meyer 3 September 1801 - 2 April 1869
>
> Adolph D'Archiac 24 September 1802 - 24 December 1868
>
> Eduard de Verneuil 13 February 1805 - 29 May 1873
>
> Leo Lesquereux 1806 - 1889
>
> P. De Malpas Grey Egerton 13 Nov 1806 - 6 April 1881
>
> Pierre E. P. Matheron 1807 - 1899
>
> Benjamin W. Hawkins 8 February 1807 - 1889
>
> Louis Aggassiz 28 May 1807 - 24 December 1873
>
> Hugh Falconer 24 February 1808 - 31 January 1865
>
> Charles Darwin 12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882
>
> Thomas Wright 9 November 1809 - Nov 1884
>
> Paul Gervais 29 September 1816 - 10 February 1879
>
> Thomas Davidson 17 May 1817 - 14 October 1885
>
> Benjamin Mudge 11 August 1817 - 21 November 1879
>
> John William Dawson 13 October 1820 - 1899
>
> Joseph Le Conte 1823 - 1901
>
> Alfred Russell Wallace 8 January 1823 - 7 November 1913
>
> Joseph Leidy 9 September 1823 - 3 April 1891
>
> Peter Martin Duncan 20 April 1824 - 28 May 1891
>
> Thomas Henry Huxley 4 May 1825 - 29 June 1895
>
> Eudes Deslongchamps 1830 - 1895 (89)
>
> Charles Othniel Marsh 29 October 1831 - 18 March 1899
>
> Thomas Chesmer Weston 1832 - 1911
>
> Alpheus Hyatt 1838 - 1902
>
> Ferdinand Stoliczka May 1838 - 19 June 1874
>
> Henry Govier Seeley 18 February 1839 - 8 January 1909
>
> Karl A. von Zittel 25 September 1839 - 5 January 1904
>
> Edward Drinker Cope 28 July 1840 - 12 April 1897
>
> Vladimir Kovalevski 1843 - 1883
>
> William H. Reed 1848 - 1915
>
> Richard Lydekker 1849 - 1915
>
> Charles Hazelius Sternberg 1850 - 1943
>
> Charles Doolittle Walcott 31 March 1850 - 9 Feb 1927
>
> Samuel W. Williston 10 July 1852 - 1918
>
> Charles Schuchert 1856 - 1942
>
> Louis Dollo 1857 - 1931
>
> Henry F. Osborn 8 August 1857 - 6 November 1935
>
> William Parker Foulke 1858 - 1929
>
> William Berryman Scott 1858 - 1947
>
> Joseph Burr Tyrell 1858 - 1957
>
> John Bell Hatcher 11 October 1861 - 3 July 1904
>
> Earl Douglass 1862 - 1931
>
> Eberhard Fraas 1862 - 1915
>
> Lawrence M. Lambe 1863 - 1919
>
> Vladimir A. Obruchev 1863 - 1956
>
> Robert Broom 30 November 1866 - 6 April 1951
>
> Bashford Dean 1867 - 1925
>
> Vernon L. Kellog 1867 - 1937
>
> Richard Swan Lull 1867 - 1957
>
> William A. Parks 1868 - 1939
>
> John C. Merriam 20 October 1869 - 30 October 1945
>
> Ernst Stromer 1870 - 1952
>
> William Diller Mathew 1871 - 1930
>
> Walter Granger 1872 - 1941
>
> Barnum Brown 1873 - 1963
>
> Charles W. Gilmore 1874 - 1945
>
> Richard Knight 1874 - 1953
>
> Fridrich von Huene 1875 - 1969
>
> Franz Nopcsa 3 May 1877 - 25 April 1933
>
> William John Sinclair 1877 - 1935
>
> Werner Janensch 1878 - 1969
>
> Alfred L. Wegener 1 November 1880 - 2/3 November 1930
>
> Edwin Hennig 1882 - 1977
>
> Childs Frick 1883 - 1965
>
> George F. Sternberg 1883 - 1969
>
> Roy Chapman Andrews 26 January 1884 - 1960
>
> Afrikan N. Kristofovich 1885 - 1953
>
> Charles M. Sternberg 1885 - 1981
>
> Alexander Wetmore 1886 - 1978
>
> J. B. S. Haldane 5 November 1892 - 1 December 1964
>
> Alfred S. Romer 28 December 1894 - 5 November 1973
>
> Levi Sternberg 1894 - 1976
>
> C. C. Young 1897 - 1979
>
> Roland T. Bird 1899 - 1978
>
> William Winkley 1900 - 1976
>
> George Gaylord Simpson 16 June 1902 - 6 October 1984
>
> Glenn Lowell Jepsen 1903 - 1978
>
> Louis Leakey 7 October 1903 - October 1972
>
> Albert De Lapparent 1905 - 1975
>
> Zdenek Burian 11 February 1905 - 1 July 1981
>
> Edwin H. Colbert 28 September 1905 - 13 November 2001
>
> Ivan A. Jefremov 22 April 1907 - 8 October 1972
>
> Everett C. Olsson 1910 - 1993
>
> Louis Alvarez 1911 - 1988
>
> Mary Leakey 6 February 1913 - 1996
>
> Eugenii A. Maleev 1915 - 1966
>
> Stephen Jay Gould 10 September 1941 - 20 May 2002
>
> J. John Sepkoski 26 July 1948 - 21 May 1999
>
>
> Well, I wasn't able to find the dates for these: Richard Brooks, Joshua
> Platt, Hans Reck, Mary Ann Mantell, Arthur Lakes, O. W.
Lucas, W. B. Sattler, W. E. Cuttler and Novojilov.
>
> Thanks for any help, Vlad
>
> "Despite, what we had been led to believe, the T. rex was not a scavenger at
> all. We clocked one at 50 km an hour." John Parker
Hammond, Jurassic memoirs, 1997
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