man of science, scientist - a person with advanced knowledge of one of more sciences

Gould, Stephen Jay Gould - United States paleontologist and popularizer of science (1941-2002)

Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, Leakey - English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)

Mary Douglas Leakey, Mary Leakey, Leakey - English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)

Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey, Richard Leakey - English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)

Sir Richard Owen, Owen - English comparative anatomist and paleontologist who was an opponent of Darwinism (1804-1892)

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Teilhard de Chardin - French paleontologist and philosopher (1881-1955)