Philip J. Currie

Phil Currie
AOE FRSC
Currie in 2014
Born (1949-03-13) March 13, 1949 (age 75)
Brampton, Ontario, Canada[1]
Alma mater
Known forDinosaurs
SpouseEva Koppelhus
Scientific career
FieldsPaleontology
Institutions
ThesisThe Osteology and Relationships of Aquatic Eosuchians from the Upper Permian of Africa and Madagascar (1981)
Doctoral advisorRobert L. Carroll
Websiteapps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/pjcurrie

Philip John Currie AOE FRSC (born March 13, 1949) is a Canadian palaeontologist and museum curator who helped found the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta and is now a professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. In the 1980s, he became the director of the Canada-China Dinosaur Project, the first cooperative palaeontological partnering between China and the West since the Central Asiatic Expeditions in the 1920s, and helped describe some of the first feathered dinosaurs.[1][2] He is one of the primary editors of the influential Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs,[3] and his areas of expertise include theropods (especially Tyrannosauridae), the origin of birds, and dinosaurian migration patterns and herding behavior.[4] He was one of the models for palaeontologist Alan Grant in the film Jurassic Park.[5]

  1. ^ a b "Currie, Philip J". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Foundation. Retrieved July 2, 2008.
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  3. ^ Currie, Philip J.; Padian, Kevin, eds. (1997). Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-226810-6.
  4. ^ "Biographies: Born 1949–1954". Calgary Herald. June 8, 2008. Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved July 2, 2008.
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