David M. Raup

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David Malcolm Raup (born April 24, 1933 in Boston , Massachusetts , † July 9, 2015 in Sturgeon Bay , Wisconsin ) was an American paleontologist .

Life

Raup studied at the University of Chicago ( Bachelor in 1953) and at Harvard University with a master’s degree in 1955 and a doctorate in geology in 1957. 1956/57 he was an instructor for paleontology of invertebrates at Caltech and was from 1957 Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University and from 1966 Associate Professor and then Professor at the University of Rochester . From 1982 he was Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago, from 1984 Swell L. Avery Distinguished Professor , where he was retired in 1994; then he moved to Washington Island in Lake Michigan . Among other things, he was visiting professor at the University of Tübingen (1965, 1972), at the University of Chicago (1977, 1978) and was also a curator at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago . From 1978 to 1980 he was head of the geological department at the Field Museum and from 1980 to 1982 Dean of Science.

In 1997 he received the Paleontological Society Medal of the Paleontological Society , of which he was president in 1976/77, and in 1973 the Charles Schuchert Award . He was a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Philosophical Society (2002) and Vice President of the American Society of Naturalists.

Among other things, he dealt with mass extinction , suggesting a cycle of 26 million years with his colleague Jack Sepkoski . The nemesis hypothesis has been suggested as a possible cause . In addition to questions related to evolution and mass extinction, he dealt with mineralogy and crystallography of skeletal bones, theoretical morphology, paleoecology and computer applications in paleontology.

David M. Raup died on July 9, 2015 at the age of 82 in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. He left behind his wife, to whom he had been married since 1987, a stepson and son from a previous marriage.

Fonts

  • with Steven M. Stanley Principles of Paleontology , Freeman 1971, 2nd edition 1978
  • Editor with David Jablonski Patterns and processes in the history of life , Dahlem workshop 1985, Springer Verlag 1986
  • Extinctions. Bad genes or bad luck? , Norton 1991, German edition: Extinct , Cologne, vgs 1992
  • The Nemesis Affair: A Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science , Norton 1999, German edition The black star: how the dinosaurs died; the dispute over the nemesis hypothesis , Rowohlt 1990
  • Raup, Sepkoski Mass extinctions in the fossil marine record , Science, Volume 215, 1982, p. 1501, Abstract (statistical support for four major mass extinctions in the Ordovician, Permian, Triassic, Cretaceous)
  • Raup, Sepkoski The role of extinction in evolution , Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., Vol. 91, 1994, p. 6758, pdf
  • Raup: Geometric Analysis of shell Coiling: coiling in ammonoids , Journal of Paleontology, Volume 41, 1966, pp. 43-65, pdf

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Steve Koppes: David Raup, paleontologist who transformed his discipline, 1933-2015. In: news.uchicago.edu. The University of Chicago , July 14, 2015, accessed July 15, 2015 .
  2. ^ Member History: David M. Raup. American Philosophical Society, accessed November 29, 2018 .
  3. ^ Raub, Sepkoski Periodicity of extinctions in the geological past , Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., Vol. 81, 1984, p. 801, pdf
  4. ↑ David Raup, palaeontologist-obituary. In: The Daily Telegraph , July 20, 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Raup, David M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raup, David Malcolm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts , United States
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 2015
Place of death Sturgeon Bay , Wisconsin , United States