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Estella Leopold Quotes

1927–2024 United States

Estella Bergere Leopold (January 8, 1927 – February 25, 2024) was an American paleobotanist, environmentalist, and professor of botany and forest sciences. Elected in 1974 a Member of the U.S.

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I think most importantly, men tend to get the top jobs, with which they get a bully pulpit for publication and speaking or exerting authority. I think women can be much more appreciated in science than they are.

The evidence from lithology and fossils indicates that Eniwetok, Bikini, and probably the other Marshall Islands, are cylinders of coral slowly building on a sinking volcanic neck or guyot; subsidence has occurred in Eocene and younger time, and there were three major periods of emergence during which the coral rocks were weathered subaerially.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Estella Leopold (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.