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David Loper

American geologist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ29447089 ↗
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David E. Loper is an American geologist who was the Distinguished Research Professor (1991-1992) and the George W. DeVore Professor of Geological Science at Florida State University (1999).

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1992, 1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, David, Loper and American is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “David Loper” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.