Giday WoldeGabriel is an Ethiopian geologist at
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, ...
, who co-discovered human skeletal remains at
Herto Bouri,
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
, now classified as ''
Homo sapiens idaltu
Herto Man refers to the 154,000 - 160,000-year-old human remains (''Homo sapiens'') discovered in 1997 from the Upper Herto member of the Bouri Formation in the Afar Triangle, Ethiopia. The discovery of Herto Man was especially significant at t ...
''.
Life
He graduated from
Case Western Reserve University.
An extinct species of prehistoric horse, ''
Eurygnathohippus woldegabrieli'', was named in his honor.
References
Los Alamos National Laboratory personnel
Ethiopian geologists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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