It was named after the Russian astronomer Yuri Efremov - and not after the palaeontologist and writer Ivan Yefremov, whose name was previously given to the asteroid 2269 Efremiana.
Andre Werner Keyser (8 March 1938 Pretoria - 15 August 2010 Pretoria), was a South African palaeontologist and geologist noted for his discovery of the Drimolen hominid site and of numerous hominid remains.
Andrew Geddes Bain (1797–1864), South African geologist, road engineer, palaeontologist and explorer
Andrey Vasilyevich Martynov (1879–1938), Russian entomologist and palaeontologist
Arthur William Baden Powell (1901–1987), New Zealand malacologist, naturalist and palaeontologist
James Scott Bowerbank (1797-1877), British naturalist and palaeontologist
Charles Mortram Sternberg (1885 – 1981), American-Canadian palaeontologist, son of the above
The binomial of this bird commemorates the British palaeontologist Charles William Andrews.
Frederick Everard Zeuner FZS (1905-1963) was a German palaeontologist and geological archaeologist who was a contemporary of Gordon Childe at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London.
Australian palaeontologist Tim Flannery's book, Astonishing Animals, written in collaboration with painter Peter Schouten, describes some of the more outlandish animals alive on Earth.
Frederick Chapman (1864–1943), English-born Australian palaeontologist
In 1982, amateur palaeontologist José María Herrero Marzo together with his son Jesús uncovered in a loam pit near Galve, the Poyales Barranco Canales site, the remains of a small euornithopod.
Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1844–1899), British palaeontologist and zoologist
Zeman was heavily influenced by the palaeo-art of the celebrated Czech artist Zdeněk Burian (1905-1981), and much of the film's imagery was inspired by Burian reconstructions that had been painted under the guidance of Czech palaeontologist Josef Augusta (1903-1968).
It was collected by the South African palaeontologist, James W. Kitching in October 1952 from Hobbs Hill, west of Cathcart.
Past participants have included polar explorer and environmental scientist Tim Jarvis, NASA Astronaut Katherine Megan McArthur; environmentalist Tanya Ha; theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss; and palaeontologist Scott Sampson.
Otto Antonius (21 May 1885 in Vienna - 9 April 1945 in Vienna) was director of the Tiergarten Schönbrunn in Vienna, zoologist, palaeontologist and co-founder of the modern zoological biology.
Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet (1806–1881), English palaeontologist and Conservative politician
François Jules Pictet de la Rive (1809 - 1872), Swiss zoologist and palaeontologist
Especially notable are the well preserved insects fossils which were described by the Swiss palaeontologist Oswald Heer.
Gideon Mantell, pioneer geologist & Palaeontologist, was a Lewes surgeon who held contracts to serve the poor of Ringmer and the Royal Horse Artillery hospital at Ringmer barracks.
He was educated at the Royal School of Mines, London, under Thomas Huxley, and was trained as a palaeontologist by his father.
All of the finds at the Tahora Formation are from the Cretaceous period, and have all been found by amateur palaeontologist Joan Wiffen and her fossil-hunting team.
The generic name means "Tim's Mimic" and combines the name of both the discoverers' son Timothy Rich and palaeontologist Tim Flannery with a Latin mimus, "mimic", a reference to the presumed affinity of the species with the Ornithomimosauria.
The term "Vallesian" was introduced by Catalan palaeontologist Miquel Crusafont in 1950 to mark the arrival of the equid Hipparion in Europe.