John Strong Newberry (December 22, 1822 – December 7, 1892) was an American physician, geologist and paleontologist. He participated as a naturalist and surgeon on three expeditions to explore and survey the western United States. During the Civil War he served in the US Sanitary Commission and...
He was the son of the Austrian paleontologist Othenio Abel. From 1931 Wolfgang Abel was engaged at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics. In 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP. He was involved in compulsory sterilization of children, who resulted from ...
There's a reason why it's called Vacationland. Maine proudly boasts some of the freshest air in the country, some of the most beautiful coastline you'll find anywhere in the world, and an excellent selection of restaurants, shops, beer, and more. That's why more and more famous people ...
Another complete skull from an adultA. africanuswas nicknamed Mrs. Ples after its original genus,Plesianthropus("near-human"). Mrs. Ples was discovered in 1947, when paleontologist Robert Broom accidentally blasted her skull apart while using dynamite to excavate in the Cradle of Humankind i...
Elisabeth Vrba is a noted German paleontologist who has spent much of her career at Yale University. She is known for her research into how climate affects species evolution over time, a theory known as the turnover-pulse hypothesis.
Older brother Andrei Konchalovsky, also a renowned filmmaker, moved to the West and made a splash with "Runaway Train" (1985), but his subsequent Hollywood films failed to live up to its promise (or that of his epic "Siberiade" 1979). Remaining behind in his Russian homeland, Mikhalkov ...
John Strong Newberry (December 22, 1822 – December 7, 1892) was an American physician, geologist and paleontologist. He participated as a naturalist and surgeon on three expeditions to explore and survey the western United States. During the Civil War he served in the US Sanitary Commission and...
He was the son of the Austrian paleontologist Othenio Abel. From 1931 Wolfgang Abel was engaged at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics. In 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP. He was involved in compulsory sterilization of children, who resulted from ...
In the early 1970s, she returned to Brazil and selected six sites in the Lagoa Santa area, where the Danish paleontologist Peter Wilhelm Lund had dug a century earlier. She found a rock shelter at site IV where in 1974-1975 she discovered most of the fat bones of what was named Lapa ...