John Ostrom
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1928 – 2005
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Who was John Ostrom?
John Harold Ostrom was an American paleontologist who revolutionized modern understanding of dinosaurs in the 1960s.
Ostrom showed that dinosaurs were more like big non-flying birds than they were like lizards as first proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley in the 1860s.
The first of Ostrom's broad-based reviews of the osteology and phylogeny of the primitive bird Archaeopteryx appeared in 1976. His reaction to the eventual discovery of feathered dinosaurs in China, after years of acrimonious debate, was bittersweet.
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- Born
- Feb 18, 1928
New York City - Also known as
- John Harold Ostrom
- John H. Ostrom
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Bachelor of Science, Union College
Geology
( - 1951) - Paleontology
- Yale University
- PhD, Columbia University
Geology
(Specialized in Vertebrate paleontology)
( - 1960)
- Bachelor of Science, Union College
- Lived in
- New York City
- Litchfield
( - 2005/07/16)
- Died
- Jul 16, 2005
Litchfield
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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