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Born February 5, 1770 • Paris • France
Died October 7, 1847 (aged 77) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Essai d’une classification naturelle des reptiles” • “Essai sur la géographie minéralogique des environs de Paris, avec une carte géognostique et des coupes de terrain”
Subjects Of Study trilobite • Tertiary Period • sequence determination

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Amos Eaton
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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
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Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
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James Hutton
James Hutton
Scottish geologist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Murchison
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison
British geologist
Charles Thomas Jackson
American physician and geologist
Jean-Baptiste-Julien d’ Omalius d’Halloy
Belgian geologist
Henslow, lithograph by T.H. Maguire, 1851
John Stevens Henslow
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Charles William Peach
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Peter Simon Pallas
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Richard Kirwan
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Bern Dibner
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Brøgger, Waldemar Christofer
Waldemar Christofer Brøgger
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Friedrich August Quenstedt
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Édouard Michelin
French industrialist
André Michelin
French industrialist
Louis Lumière
French inventor

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