Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer Edler von Huthorn was a Baltic German scientist and explorer. Baer is also known in Russia as Karl Maksímovich Ber.
Rudolf von Bitter Rucker is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which both won Philip K. Dick Awards. Until its closure in 2014 he edited the science fiction webzine Flurb.
Ectoderm is one of the three primary germ layers in the very early embryo. The other two layers are the mesoderm and endoderm, with the ectoderm as the most exterior layer. It emerges and originates from the outer layer of germ cells. The word ectoderm comes from the Greek ektos meaning "outside", and derma, meaning "skin."
Frank Dawson Adams was a Canadian geologist.
A Woman of the Sea, also known by its working title Sea Gulls, is an unreleased silent film produced in 1926 by the Chaplin Film Company. It is one of only two lost Charlie Chaplin films, having been destroyed by Chaplin himself as a tax writeoff.
Heinz Christian Pander, also Christian Heinrich Pander, was a Baltic German biologist and embryologist born in Riga.
Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer and artist known for his large format photographs of industrial landscapes.
Walter Andrew Bell was a Canadian geologist. He worked for the Geological Survey of Canada for over 40 years and authored or co-authored 70 publications. Most of them concerning Carboniferous stratigraphy, paleobotany and paleontology of Atlantic Canada. He also contributed significantly to central and western Canadian Mesozoic and Cenozoic paleobotany. His work provided support for the theory of continental drift.
Hans Wolfgang Liepmann was an American engineer and emeritus Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology.
John Suppe is an American geologist who is Distinguished Professor of Geology at University of Houston and Princeton University.
Richard John Aldridge was a British palaeontologist and academic, who was Bennett Professor of Geology at the University of Leicester.
The Pander Society is an informal organisation founded in 1967 for the promotion of the study of conodont palaeontology. It publishes an annual newsletter. Although there are regular meetings of the Pander Society, at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, at European Conodont Symposia, and elsewhere, any meeting of three or more "Panderers" is considered an official meeting of the "Pander Society". The society is headed by the Chief Panderer, currently Maria Cristina Perri of the Università di Bologna. The society confers two awards, the Pander Medal for a lifetime of achievement in conodont palaeontology, and the Hinde Medal for an outstanding contribution to conodont palaeontology by a young Panderer.
Christian Pander is a German footballer who plays as a left back. He is currently a free agent, having most recently served Hannover 96 of the Bundesliga. He is known for his powerful left-foot free-kicks and willingness to burst up the left wing.
Allenna Leonard is an American cyberneticist, consultant and Director of Team Syntegrity Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, internationally, specializing in the application of Stafford Beer's Viable System Model and Syntegration. She was president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences in 2009-2010, and led the organization of its 54th annual meeting in Waterloo, Canada.
Peter H. Schultz is Professor of Geological Sciences at Brown University specializing in the study of planetary geology, impact cratering on the Earth and other objects in the Solar System, and volcanic modifications of planetary surfaces. He was co-investigator to the NASA Science Mission Directorate spacecraft Deep Impact and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). He was awarded the Barringer Medal of the Meteoritical Society in 2004 for his theoretical and experimental studies of impact craters.
McCaul Loop is a turning loop and the western terminus of the 502 Downtowner streetcar line of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the east side of McCaul Street north of Queen Street West at the Village by the Grange mixed-use development, across the street from OCAD University.
Peter Gerald Moore TD FIA was a British soldier, actuary, academic and statistician. He was Professor of Statistics at London Business School, 1965–1993 and its principal from 1984–1989
Charles Henry Smyth Jr. was an American geologist. Born to a prominent family in Upstate New York, he studied geology at Columbia University before becoming a professor of geology at Hamilton College and Princeton University. At Princeton he strengthened the Department of Geology's graduate program.
Walter C. Sweet was an American paleontologist.
Raymond (Ray) Lindsay Ethington is an American paleontologist. He works in the Geology department at the University of Missouri.
