Derek Briggs

Derek Briggs
Born
Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs

(1950-01-10) 10 January 1950 (age 74)[3]
Ireland
NationalityIrish
Alma mater
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPaleontology
Institutions
ThesisArthropods from the Burgess Shale, Middle Cambrian, Canada (1976)
Doctoral advisorHarry Whittington
Website

Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs (born 10 January 1950) is an Irish palaeontologist and taphonomist based at Yale University.[3] Briggs is one of three palaeontologists, along with Harry Blackmore Whittington and Simon Conway Morris, who were key in the reinterpretation of the fossils of the Burgess Shale. He is the Yale University G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History, and former Director of the Peabody Museum.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

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  2. ^ Boyle Medal Laureates Royal Dublin Society
  3. ^ a b "BRIGGS, Prof. Derek Ernest Gilmor". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  4. ^ "Curriculum vitae: Derek E.G. Briggs" (PDF). people.earth.yale.edu. Yale University. 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  5. ^ Briggs, Derek E. G. (2014). "Adolf Seilacher (1925–2014) Palaeontologist who pioneered analysis of trace fossils". Nature. 509 (7501): 428. Bibcode:2014Natur.509..428B. doi:10.1038/509428a. PMID 24848054.
  6. ^ Derek Briggs's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  7. ^ Briggs, D. E. G. (2003). "The role of decay and mineralization in the preservation of soft-bodied fossils". Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 31 (31): 275–301. Bibcode:2003AREPS..31..275B. doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.31.100901.144746.
  8. ^ Briggs, D. E. G.; Kear, A. J. (1993). "Fossilization of Soft Tissue in the Laboratory". Science. 259 (5100): 1439–42. Bibcode:1993Sci...259.1439B. doi:10.1126/science.259.5100.1439. PMID 17801278. S2CID 43188896.
  9. ^ Briggs, D. E. G.; Fortey, R. A.; Wills, M. A. (1992). "Morphological Disparity in the Cambrian". Science. 256 (5064): 1670–3. Bibcode:1992Sci...256.1670B. doi:10.1126/science.256.5064.1670. PMID 17841089.
  10. ^ Stankiewicz, B. A. (1997). "Preservation of Chitin in 25-Million-Year-Old Fossils". Science. 276 (5318): 1541–1543. doi:10.1126/science.276.5318.1541.
  11. ^ Briggs, D. E.; Fortey, R. A. (1989). "The early radiation and relationships of the major arthropod groups". Science. 246 (4927): 241–3. Bibcode:1989Sci...246..241B. doi:10.1126/science.246.4927.241. PMID 17839017. S2CID 35322293.
  12. ^ Orr, P. J.; Briggs, D. E. G.; Kearns, S. L. (1998). "Cambrian Burgess Shale Animals Replicated in Clay Minerals". Science. 281 (5380): 1173–1175. Bibcode:1998Sci...281.1173O. doi:10.1126/science.281.5380.1173. PMID 9712577.
  13. ^ Briggs, D. E. G. (1999). "Molecular taphonomy of animal and plant cuticles: selective preservation and diagenesis". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 354 (1379): 7–17. doi:10.1098/rstb.1999.0356. PMC 1692454.
  14. ^ Briggs, D. E. G. (2013). "A mosquito's last supper reminds us not to underestimate the fossil record". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110 (46): 18353–18354. Bibcode:2013PNAS..11018353B. doi:10.1073/pnas.1319306110. PMC 3832008. PMID 24187151.