Albert Oppel

Carl Albert Oppel (19 December 1831 – 23 December 1865)

paleontologist

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History

He was born at

University of Munich. Then, a year later, he became the director of the Palaeontological Collection. Of his later works, it can be said that the most important was Paläontologische Mittheilungen aus dem Museum des Königlichen Bayerischen Staates (1862–1865). He died on 23 December 1865 at the age of 34. The wrinkle ridge Dorsum Oppel on the Moon is named after him,^[2] as is the fossil prawn genus Albertoppelia.^[3]

Studies

Oppel devoted his life to the study of fossils and the examination of the strata of the

University of Munich

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References

Helmut Mayr (1999), "Oppel, Albert", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 19, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 556–557; (full text online)

^ Günter Schweigert. Wenn sich Genie und Fleiß verbinden - Albert Oppel (1831–1865). In: Fossilien. Volume 2, March/April 2008, S. 90
^ ^a ^b "Moon Nomenclature - Dorsum". lunar.ksc.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 19 February 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
^ Günter Schweigert & Alessandro Garassino (2004). "New genera and species of shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dendrobranchiata, Caridea) from the Upper Jurassic lithographic limestones of S Germany" (PDF). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Ser. B. 350: 33 pp.^{[permanent dead link]}