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Gould spent most of his career teaching at harvard university and working at the american museum of natural history in new york.

Mesothelioma bladder cancer. In 2002 cancer returned and this time stared him down. While paul kraus espouses a more spiritual approach to dealing with his disease gould instead took a scientific approach to finding hope carefully examining the statistics of mesothelioma life expectancy in his famous. An important aspect of stephen j.

Respectfully submitted richard bambach. Updated 5202005 101907 pm et 2005 05 21t02. When stephen jay gould a revolutionary evolutionary biologist and paleontologist was diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma he learned the median survival was just 8 months after diagnosis.

Stephen jay gould american scientist and popular author stephen jay gould was diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma in 1982. Although it is not well known in the united states gould was a lifelong marxist and his science as well as the rest of his life was informed by this intellectual background. September 10 1941 may 20 2002 was an american paleontologist evolutionary biologist and historian of sciencehe was one of the most influential and widely read authors of popular science of his generation.

Stephen jay gould died on may 20 2002 a profound loss to harvard and the world at large. Stephen jay gould was an evolutionary biologist and scientific author who was diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma in 1982. By stephen jay gould my life has recently intersected in a most personal way two of mark twains famous quips.

Stephen jay goulds family says that if his cancer had been properly diagnosed four years ago the famed evolutionary scientist would still be alive. Goulds life that was only referred to in passing in r. Stephen jay gould was a popular scientific author paleontologist and evolutionary biologist authoring over 20 books and hundreds of essays published in natural history magazine.

He was diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma in 1982 and given a life expectancy of around eight months. Stephen jay gould u l d. Forteys otherwise excellent obituary retrospective 14 june p.

He is survived by jesse and ethan gould children by his first marriage to the former deborah lee and by his second wife rhonda roland shearer. 19841 is goulds radical politics. One i shall defer to the end of this essay.

At his very core gould was a researcher and loved statistics.