[General Sites] [Individual Paleontologists - A - G] [Individual Paleontologists - H - N] [Individual Paleontologists - O - S] [Individual Paleontologists - T - Z] [Awards]
| Dinosaur Wars | Feud between Edward D. Cope and Othneil C. Marsh; From Smithsonian |
| American Museum of Natural History: Personalities in Paleontology | Provide information on some outstanding contributors |
| Dino Land Paleontologist Interviews | Dale Russell, Kirk Johnson, Larry Agenbroad, William Hammer, Matt Wedel, Susan Hendrickson, Robert T. Bakker, David Raup, Martin Lockley, Peter Sheehan; plus summaries of interviews with other paleontologiests |
| Enchanted Learning's Paleontologists Page | Brief biographical information on Luis Alvarez, Roy C. Andrews, Mary Anning, Robert Bakker, Rinchen Barsbold, Roland T. Bird, Jose F. Bonaparte,Michael Brett-Surman, Barnum Brown, William Buckland, Kenneth Carpenter, Karen, Chin, Edwin Colbert, Edward Drinker Cope, Rodolfo Coria, Philip J. Currie, Georges Cuvier, Charles Darwin, Dong Zhiming, Earl Douglass, William Parker Foulke, Peter M. Galton, Jacques A. Gauthier, Charles W. Gilmore, Benjamin W. Hawkins, Sue Hendrickson, Edward B. Hitchcock, Arthur Holmes, Thomas Holtz, John R. Horner, Thomas H. Huxley, Werner Janensch, James A. Jensen, James I. Kirkland, Lawrence M. Lambe, Wann Lanston, Jr., Albert de Lapparent, Joseph Leidy, R.S. Lull, E.A. Maleev, Gideon Mantell, Othniel Marsh, Larry Martin, Ruth Mason, Hermann von Meyer, Elizabeth Nicholls, David Norman, Fernando E. Novas, Henry Osborn, John H. Ostrum, Richard Owen, William A. Parks, Thomas H. Rich, Dale A. Russell, Harry G. Seeley, Paul C. Sereno, Charles H. Sternberg, Charles M. Sternberg, George Sternberg, Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach, Hans-Dieter Sues, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Friedrich von Huene, Hermann von Meyer, Alfred L. Wegener, Alexander Wetmore, Joan Wiffen, Samuel W. Williston, William Winkley, Young Chung Chien, Zhao Xijin |
| Lefalophodon: An Informal History of Evolutionary Biology: Guide to Biography | Major (and not so major) figures, 18th thru 20th centuries; from John Alroy |
Individual Paleontologists -
A - G
| Luis W. And Walter Alvarez | Father & son team who with others proposed the meteor impact mass extinction theory. See also Luis Walter Alvarez Nobel prize winning physicist, 1968 |
| Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz | (1807-1873); Founder of paleoichthyology |
| Carl E. Akeley | (1863 or 1864 - 1926); Founder of modern taxidermy; influenced museum design |
| Roy Chapman Andrews | (1884 - 1960); From American Museum of Natural History |
| Mary Anning | (1799 - 1847); Biography, illustrations; from Dinosaur Time Machine |
| Mary Anning | Avid fossil collector |
| William Joscelyn Arkell | (1904 - 1958); Link to Encyclopedia Britannica. Search name |
| Spencer Fullerton Baird | (1823 - 1887); First secretary of the Smithsonian |
| Robert T. Bakker | He said dinosaurs might be warm-blooded |
| Thomas Barbour | (1884 - 1946); Herpetologist |
| Henry Walter Bates | (1825 - 1892); British naturalist |
| William Bateson | (1861 - 1926); Introduced term "genetics" |
| Zdenek Burian | (1905 - 1981); Czech paleoartist |
| Charles Emerson Beecher | (1856 - 1904); Former Curator, Peabody Museum. See also Charles Emerson Beecher |
| Roland T. Bird | (1899 - 1978); From American Museum of Natural History |
| Michael K. Brett-Surman | Specializes in the Mesozoic Era |
| Barnum Brown | (1873 - 1963); Former curator for the American Museum of Natural History and discoverer of Tyrannosaurus rex; see also Barnum Brown |
| William Buckland | (1784 - 1856); Described the world's first dinosaur fossil; See also Dinosaurs of the Victorian Era |
| Kenneth Carpenter | Paleontologist at Denver Museum of Natural History |
| Edward Drinker Cope | (1840 - 1897); Former co/owner & editor The American Naturalist. See also Edward Drinker Cope Dino discoverer; See also Dinosaurs of the Victorian Era |
| Mee-Mann Chang | (b. 1936); One of the People's Republic of China's leading paleontologists |
| Karen Chin | The queen of dinosaur poop!; from Discovery Online |
| Scott Ciencin | An author of dinosaur series books, rather than a paleontolgist per se |
| Rudolfo Coria | Argentinean scientist, discoverer of Gigantosaurus. Link is to a news article |
| Phillip J. Currie | Curator of dinosaurs at Royal Tyrrell Museum. With Dr. Chen Peiju of Beijing University discovered "dinosaur with feathers." Link is to news article |
| Georges Cuvier | (1769 - 1832); Nineteenth century; proposed theory of extinction |
| Charles Robert Darwin | (1809 - 1882); Author of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection |
| Erasmus Darwin | (1731 - 1802); British medical doctor and naturalist |
| Thomas Davidson | (1817 - 1885); Link is to Encyclopedia Britannica. Search his name |
| Jane P. Davidson | A historian who writes dinosaur books |
| Mary Dawson | Paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum |
| Bashford Dean | (1867 - 1928); Specialist on the evolution of fishes |
| Diderot and d'Alembert | Encyclopediasts |
| Earl Douglass | Link is "Dinosaurs and Their Habitat"; See also: Earl Douglass |
| James O. Farlow | Paleontologist and author |
| William Parker Foulke | Link is to Haddonfield (NJ) site of Foulke's great find |
| Childs Frick | (1883 - 1965); Excavated in the American West |
| Walter Granger | (1872 - 1941); Chief paleontologist of the Central Asiatic Expeditions (1890's) |
| William King Gregory | (1876 - 1970); Former Curator, American Museum of Natural History |
| Conrad Gesner | (1516 - 1565); Sixteenth century naturalist who included illustrations in his book on fossils |
Individual Paleontologists -
H - N
| Kelly Milner Halls | Author of children's books |
| John Bell Hatcher | (1861 - 1904); Collector; Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Princeton |
| Edward Hitchcock | Professor of Geology, Amherst College; studied stone footprints of the Connecticut Valley |
| Thomas R. Holtz | Paleontologist at the University of Maryland |
| Jack Horner | Brief biography; Gerry Lewin's Learning and Learning Disabilities site; see also: Jack Horner; from Museum of the Rockies |
| Robert Hooke | (1635 - 1703)' Seventeenth century naturalist who promoted the concept of extinction |
| Thomas Henry Huxley | (1825 - 1895); Naturalist; Royal College of Science (England) |
| Alpheus Hyatt | (1838 - 1902); Founder and first president of American Naturalist |
| Glenn Lowell Jepsen | (1903 - 1974); First Sinclair Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, Princeton |
| Vernon L. Kellogg | (1867 - 1937); Entomologist and natural historian |
| Arthur Lakes | Collector; Morrison formation; from Morrison's Dinosaur Discoveries |
| Jean-Baptiste de Monet de Lamarck | (1744 - 1829); Preceded Darwin in proposing concept of evolution |
| Joseph LeConte | (1823 - 1901); Physiologist and geologist |
| Leo Lesquereux | (1806 - 1889); America's first palebotanist |
| "Dino Don" Lessem | From ISLMC Teacher's pages |
| Joseph Leidy | (1823 - 1891); First full-time American vertebrate paleontologist; Professor, University of Pennsylvania |
| Carl Linnaeus | (1707 - 1778); Eighteenth century; developed classification system |
| Martin Lockley | The world's dinosaur track expert; from Dino Trackers; see also Interview with Dr. Martin Lockley from Dino Land |
| Richard Swan Lull | (1867 - 1957); Former professor, Yale University; See also R. S. Lull |
| Gideon Mantell |
(1790 - 1852); Brief bio. See also: |
| Othniel Charles Marsh |
(1831 - 1899); Former Head, Yale Peabody Museum; see
also Dinosaurs of the Victorian Era |
| William Diller Matthew | (1871 - 1930); Former Curator, American Museum of Natural History; Professor UC Berkeley |
| Chris McGowan | Senior Curator of Palaeobiology, Royal Ontario Museum |
| W. J. T. (Tom) Mitchell | Professor of art history and author of dinosaur books |
| Benjamin F. Mudge | (1817 - 1879); Page contains biographical information on Mudge; from Kansas Academy of Science. See also The Great Feud |
| Mark Norell | Paleontologist and author, American Museum of Natural History |
Individual Paleontologists -
O - S
| George Olshevsky | Dinosaur expert and author |
| Everett C. Olson | (1910 - 1993); From National Academy Press, Biographical Memoirs v.75 (1998), p. 241 |
| Henry Fairfield Osborn | (1857 - 1935); Former director of American Museum of Natural History. See also Henry Fairfield Osborn |
| Sir Richard Owen | (1804 - 1891); Coined the term, dinosaur; Assistant Curator, Hunterian Museum |
| Charles Willson Peale | (1741 - 1827); Artist, museum curator, and self-taught paleontologist who excavated and studied the mastodon |
| John Ray | (1627 - 1705); Seventeenth century naturalist who worked with fossils; first to formulate the idea of species |
| William H. Reed | (1848 - 1915); Collector for the Peabody Museum |
| Bobb Schaeffer | b. 1943; Specialist in fossil fishes |
| Johann Jakob Scheuchzer | (1672 - 1733); Seventeenth century naturalist |
| Charles Schuchert | (1856 - 1942); administrative head of Peabody Museum; trained many eminent paleontologists and stratigraphers |
| William Berryman Scott | (1858 - 1947); Professor of Geology and Paleontology, Princeton |
| J. John Sepkoski, Jr. | (1948 - 1999); Studied the history of life in the oceans |
| Paul Sereno | His site at University of Chicago; discoverer of Suchomimus |
| Peter Sheehan | Curator of Geology at Milwaukee Public Museum |
| Victor Shelford | (1877 - 1968); Ecologist |
| George Gaylord Simpson | (1902 - 1984); "Most influential paleontologist of the 20th century;" Professor, University of Arizona |
| William John Sinclair | (1877 - 1935); Collector; university professor at Princeton |
| Jan Smit | Supported the comet dinosaur extenction theory by locating the crater |
| Niels Stensen | Seventeenth century scientist who identified fossils |
| Sternberg Family Biography |
A family of fossil hunters;
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| Ernst Stromer | Discovered the first dinosaurs in Egypt; from Strange Science |
Individual Paleontologists - T -
Z
| Charles Doolittle Walcott | (1850 - 1927); Former director of the U. S. Geological Survey |
| Alfred Russell Wallace | (1823 - 1913); Co-discoverer of the theory of natural selection |
| David Weishampel | Specializes in European dinosaurs |
| William Morton Wheeler | (1865 - 1937); Insect embryologist |
| Samuel Wendell Williston | (1851 - 1918); Former Professor, University of Chicago |
| Women in Paleontology | Information on Mary Anning, Mary Ann Mantell, Mary Leakey |
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