David M. Raup: Difference between revisions

| name = David M. Raup

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1933|4|24}}

| birth_place = [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]

| death_date = {{death date and age|2015|7|9|1933|4|24}}

| death_place = [[Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin|Sturgeon Bay]], {{nowrap|[[Door County, Wisconsin|Door County]]}}, [[Wisconsin]]

|residence nationality = [[United StatesAmericans|American]]

|nationality ethnicity = [[Americans|American]]

|work_institutions alma_mater = [[University of Chicago]]<br />[[Harvard]]

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Raup taught at [[Caltech]], [[Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins]] and the [[University of Rochester]].<ref>{{Cite book |last= International Palaeontological Union (I.P.U.) |year= 1968 |editor-last= Westermann |editor-first= G.E.G.|title= Directory of Palaeontologists of the World (excl. Soviet Union & continental China) |edition= 2|publisher=McMaster University |location=Hamilton, Ontario |page=93 |url=https://archive.org/stream/ERIC_ED030579#page/n107/mode/2up|via=Internet Archive |access-date= January 17, 2017}}</ref> He was a curator and Dean of Science at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago as well as a visiting professor in Germany at [[Tübingen]] and on the faculty of the [[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.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/771167/influential-u-c-paleontologist-david-raup-dies-82 | work=Chicago Sun-Times | title=David Raup, influential University of Chicago paleontologist, dead at 82 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715072049/http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/771167/influential-u-c-paleontologist-david-raup-dies-82 | archive-date=2015-07-15 }}</ref> The Hungaria asteroid [[9165 Raup]] was named in his honor.<ref name="springer" />

* {{Cite book |last1=Raup |first1=David |first2=Steven M. |last2=Stanley |year=1978 |title=Principles of Paleontology |publisher=Macmillan |edition=2 |isbn=978-0-7167-0022-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/principlesofpale0000raup_g1k1 }}

* {{Cite book |last=Raup |first=David |year=1992 |title=Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=978-0-393-30927-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/extinction00davi }}

* {{Cite book |last=Raup |first=David 1999 |title=The Nemesis Affair: A Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science |isbn=978-0-393-31918-7 |year=1999 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company }}

* {{cite journal |last1=Raup |first1=David M. |last2=Sepkoski |first2=J. John, Jr. |date=19 March 1982 |title=Mass extinctions in the marine fossil record |journal=Science |volume=215 |issue= 4539 |pmid=17788674|pages=1501–3 |doi=10.1126/science.215.4539.1501 |bibcode=1982Sci...215.1501R|s2cid=43002817 }}

* {{cite journal |last1=Raup |first1=David M. |last2=Sepkoski |first2=J. John, Jr. |date=February 1984 |title=Periodicity of extinctions in the geologic past. |journal=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA |volume=81 |pmid=6583680 |issue=3 |pages=801–805 |pmc=344925 |url=http://www.pnas.org/content/81/3/801.full.pdf |access-date=2010-04-14 |doi=10.1073/pnas.81.3.801 |bibcode=1984PNAS...81..801R|doi-access=free }}