Died 1952 | ||
Paul Theodor Range (1 May 1879 in Lübeck – 29 August 1952 in Lübeck) was a German geologist and naturalist.
He studied natural sciences at the universities of Würzburg and Leipzig, receiving his doctorate in 1903. From 1906 to 1914 he worked as a government geologist in German South-West Africa, and afterwards, performed scientific studies in the Sinai Peninsula. From 1921 he gave lectures in geology at the University of Berlin, becoming an associate professor in 1934. In 1936 he was named president of the Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft.
The Namib sand gecko (Palmatogecko rangei, synonym: Pachydactylus rangei) commemorates his name, being circumscribed by herpetologist Lars Gabriel Andersson in 1908.
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