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David M. Raup
Extinction isn’t random — but the 26-million-year pulse Raup found is not a law of nature.
Extinction
Species ending, currently at a rate that has a geological name.
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Georges Cuvier
Cuvier didn’t just name extinct beasts — he proved life could vanish, and made Earth’s history a story of catastrophe, not continuity.
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Mary Anning
She didn’t theorise deep time — she dug it up, dissected it, and named its waste.
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Abdus Salam
Salam didn’t discover a particle — he built the grammar that lets physicists speak about weak and electromagnetic forces as one thing.
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Abraham Maslow
Maslow didn’t measure self-actualisation—he curated it from heroes he admired.
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Ada Lovelace
Lovelace didn’t write code — she wrote the first argument for what code could mean.
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Al-Khwarizmi
He didn’t invent algebra—he founded it as a discipline with rules, not rhetoric.