Walter Robert Gross (20 August 1903 – 9 June 1974) was a German

palaeontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

. During his career, Gross made important studies on

prehistoric fish The evolution of fish began about 530 million years ago during the Cambrian explosion. It was during this time that the early chordates developed the skull and the vertebral column, leading to the first craniates and vertebrates. The first fish ...

es. He was the graduate mentor to paleontologists

Hans-Peter Schultze Hans-Peter Schultze (born 13 August 1937 in Swinemünde, Poland) is a German-American paleoichthyologist.Lebensdaten nach ''American Men and Women of Science'', Thomson Gale 2004 He has described the following taxon: *'' Luckeus abudda'' Young ...

and

Klaus Fahlbusch Klaus is a German, Dutch and Scandinavian given name and surname. It originated as a short form of Nikolaus, a German form of the Greek given name Nicholas. Notable persons whose family name is Klaus * Billy Klaus (1928–2006), American baseba ...

. The genus '' Grossopterus'' was named in Gross' honor by fellow paleontologist

Leif Størmer Leif Størmer (1 July 1905 – 15 May 1979) was a Norwegian paleontologist and geologist. He was professor of historical geology at the University of Oslo from 1946 to 1975. His father was the mathematician Carl Størmer, and his son the mathemat ...

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German paleontologists 1903 births 1974 deaths {{paleontologist-stub