David M. Raup

Malcolm David Raup ( born April 24, 1933, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American paleontologist.

Life

Raup studied at the University of Chicago (Bachelor 1953) and Harvard University with a master's degree in 1955 and his doctorate in geology in 1957. 1956/57, he was instructor of Paleontology invertebrates at Caltech and was from 1957 Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University and from 1966 Associate Professor and then Professor at the University of Rochester. From 1982 he was professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Chicago, where he retired in 1994; afterwards he moved to the island of Iceland in Washington Lake Michigan. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Tübingen (1965, 1972), at the University of Chicago (1977, 1978) and was also at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago curator, 1978-1980 Board of the Geology Department, and from 1980 to 1982 dean for science.

In 1997 he received the Paleontological Society Medal of the Paleontological Society, its president in 1976 /77 and 1973 the Charles Schuchert Award. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He dealt among other things with mass extinctions, where he proposed a cycle of 26 million years ago with his colleague Jack Sepkoski. As a possible cause of the Nemesis hypothesis has been proposed.

David M. Raup is married since 1987 and has one child.

Writings

• Steven M. Stanley Principles of Paleontology, Freeman 1971, 2nd edition 1978
• Editor David Jablonski Patterns and processes in the history of life, Dahlem workshop 1985, Springer Verlag 1986
• Extinctions. Bad genes or bad luck, Norton, 1991, German edition: Extinct, Cologne, vgs 1992
• The Nemesis Affair: A Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science, Norton 1999 German edition The Black Star: how the dinosaurs died; the dispute over the Nemesis hypothesis Rowohlt 1990
• Raup, Sepkoski Mass extinctions in the marine fossil record, Science, Volume 215, 1982, pp. 1501, Abstract ( statistical support for four major mass extinctions in the Ordovician, Permian, Triassic, Cretaceous )
• Raup, Sepkoski The role of extinction in evolution, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., Volume 91, 1994, S. 6758, pdf