Alan J. Charig
British palaeontologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alan Jack Charig (1 July 1927 – 15 July 1997) was an English palaeontologist[1] and writer who popularised his subject on television and in books at the start of the wave of interest in dinosaurs in the 1970s.
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Alan J. Charig | |
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Born | (1927-07-01)1 July 1927 England |
Died | 15 July 1997(1997-07-15) (aged 70) England |
Nationality | British |
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Fields | Palaeontology |
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Charig was, though, first and foremost a research scientist in the Department of Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, London. There he worked on dinosaurs and their immediate Triassic ancestors, but also studied creatures as varied as limbless amphisbaenians (worm-lizards) and a Fijian gastropod, Thatcheria.