David M. Raup
David M. Raup | |
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| Born | April 24, 1933 Harvard |
| Awards | Charles Schuchert Award (1973) Paleontological Society Medal (1997) |
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| Fields | Paleontology Paleobiology |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
David M. Raup (April 24, 1933 – July 9, 2015) was a
mya
was part of a cycle of mass extinctions that may have occurred every 26 million years.
Biography
Early life
Born on April 24, 1933, and raised in
fossil record
did not begin at a young age, having had very little contact with such things until later in life. He focused instead on leisure activities such as skiing and camping. His first mentor was John Clark, a vertebrate paleontologist and sedimentologist at the University of Chicago while starting his education.
Career
Raup began his academic career at
PhD
degrees there.
Raup taught at
College of the Virgin Islands. Raup was heavily involved through his career in joint programs with biology and in promoting training of paleontologists in modern marine environments. In 1994, he retired to Washington Island in northern Lake Michigan. Prior to his death, he assisted the Santa Fe Institute to develop methods and approaches to dealing with the evolutionary exploration of morphospace. He died on July 9, 2015, of pneumonia.[2] The Hungaria asteroid 9165 Raup was named in his honor.[3]
Honors
Raup was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996[4] and the American Philosophical Society in 2002.[5]
Selected publications
Books
- Raup, David; Stanley, Steven M. (1978). Principles of Paleontology (2 ed.). Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-7167-0022-7.
- Raup, David (1986). "Patterns and Processes in the History of Life". In David M. Raup and ISBN 978-0-387-15965-2.
- Raup, David (1992). Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-30927-0.
- Raup, David 1999 (1999). The Nemesis Affair: A Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-31918-7.)
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Periodicals
- Raup, David M. (1962). "Computer as aid in describing form in gastropod shells". Science. 138 (3537): 150–152. S2CID 20264319.
- Raup, David M. (1966). "Geometric analysis of shell coiling: general problems". Journal of Paleontology. 40: 1178–1190.
- Raup, David M. (12 October 1979). "Size of the Permo-Triassic Bottleneck and Its Evolutionary Implications". Science. 206 (4415): 217–218. S2CID 46450875.
- Raup, David M.; Sepkoski, J. John Jr. (19 March 1982). "Mass extinctions in the marine fossil record". Science. 215 (4539): 1501–3. S2CID 43002817.
- Raup, David M.; Sepkoski, J. John Jr. (February 1984). "Periodicity of extinctions in the geologic past" (PDF). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 81 (3): 801–805. PMID 6583680. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
- Raup, David M. (1994). "The Role of Extinction in Evolution" (PDF). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 91 (15): 6758–6763. PMID 8041694. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
References
- ^ International Palaeontological Union (I.P.U.) (1968). Westermann, G.E.G. (ed.). Directory of Palaeontologists of the World (excl. Soviet Union & continental China) (2 ed.). Hamilton, Ontario: McMaster University. p. 93. Retrieved January 17, 2017 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "David Raup, influential University of Chicago paleontologist, dead at 82". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 2015-07-15.
- ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.
- ^ "David Malcolm Raup". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
External links
- 1997 Interview with David M. Raup at the Wayback Machine (archived October 26, 2009)
- Michael Foote and Arnold I. Miller, "David M. Raup", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2017)
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