Dinosaur Scientists

• Luis and Walter Alvarez
  - Found evidence for asteroid impact theory of dinosaur extinction.
  
  
• Mary Anning
  - 19th century fossil hunter.
  
  
• Robert T. Bakker
  - Author of many books about dinosaurs.
  
  
• Barnum Brown
  - 20th century fossil hunter and scientist. Found the first Tyrannosaurus Rex.
  
  
• William Buckland
  - Wrote the first scientific description of a dinosaur.
  
  
• Edward D. Cope
  - 19th century fossil hunter and scientist.
  
  
• Charles Darwin
  - Proposed theory of evolution by Natural Selection.
  
  
• Niles Eldredge
  - Proposed theory of Punctuated Equilibria.
  
  
• Stephen Jay Gould
  - Proposed theory of Punctuated Equilibria. Wrote many popular science books.
  
  
• John R. Horner
  - Discovered and named Maiasaura, served as technical advisor to the Jurassic Park movies.
  
  
• Othniel C. Marsh
  - 19th century fossil hunter and scientist. Described Apatosaurus and Allosaurus.
  
  
• Henry Fairfield Osborn
  - Proposed concept of Adaptive Radiation. Described Tyrannosaurus Rex.
  
  
• Richard Owen
  - Coined the term "dinosaur", founded Natural History Museum in London, and created first full-size dinosaur reconstructions.