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Born August 11, 1799 • France
Died October 5, 1883 (aged 84) • Austria
Notable Works “Système silurien du centre de la Bohême”
Subjects Of Study Bohemia • Paleozoic Era • fossil
Marcellin Boule
Marcellin Boule
French geologist
ameghino, florentino
Florentino Ameghino
Argentine anthropologist
William Lonsdale
British geologist
Mantell, detail of an engraving
Gideon Algernon Mantell
British paleontologist
Raymond Cecil Moore
American paleontologist
Albert Oppel
German geologist and paleontologist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher and paleontologist
Édouard Lartet
French geologist and archaeologist
Henri-François-Émile Termier
French geologist
Émile Haug
French geologist
Earl Douglass
American paleontologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
George Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist
Sir Richard Owen, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Henry Fairfield Osborn
American paleontologist
Murchison
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison
British geologist
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
Otto Heinrich Schindewolf
German paleontologist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science
Cross section of Earth showing the core, mantle, and crust
Everything Earth