Charles Repenning, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
Date of Birth: 04-Aug-1922
Place of Birth: Oak Park, Illinois, United States
Date of Death: 05-Jan-2005
Profession: paleontologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Charles Repenning
- Charles Repenning (August 4, 1922, Oak Park, Illinois—January 5, 2005, Lakewood, Colorado) was an American paleontologist and zoologist noted for his work on shrews, fossil rodents, modern pinnipeds and their extinct relatives, the Desmostylia.
- He identified and researched the Paleoparadoxia found during the excavation of Stanford Linear Accelerator at Stanford University in California, which was eventually reclassified as a distinct species, which was named in his honor.
- Repenning was the first paleontologist to identify fossils from the North Slope of Alaska as dinosaur bones.
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