Paleontology John "Jack" Horner



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Introduction

John R. (Jack) Horner is a US paleontologist (born on June 15, 1946 in Shelby, Montana) who entitled: Maiasaura (with Makela, 1979) and Orodromeus (with D.B. Weishampel, 1988). Horner found out the first egg clutches in the Americas (Maiasaura) and the first evidence of parental care from dinosaurs (also Maiasaura). Horner is the Curator of Paleontology at the repository of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, USA. Horner came to the University of Montana, majoring in geology and zoology. Horner is the scribe of: "Digging Dinosaurs" (Workman Pub., 1988), "Complete T-rex" (with D, Lessem, Simon and Schuster,1993), "Maia, A Dinosaur Grows Up" (Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University, 1985), "Digging Up Tyrannosaurus rex" (with D, Lessem, 1992), "Dinosaur Eggs and offspring" (Cambridge University Press, 1994), and "Dinosaur Lives" (HarperCollins, 1997). Horner was a mechanical advisor for the movies Jurassic Park and The Lost World.

As a youth, He was an introvert. He was extremely timid and deathly aghast of having to speak in front of an assembly of any size. But in 1979, He received a note from Philadelphia inviting him to give a lecture on his dinosaur discoveries to the American Philosophical Society, the organization based by Benjamin Franklin in 1743. This intended that He would speak in Philosophical Hall, a building adhered to Independence Hall, where not only Benjamin Franklin had voiced, but furthermore America's first paleontologist, Joseph Leidy, and his student and successor, Edward Drinker Cope. (Horner 134)

It was an invitation that He could not turn down, even though He knew He might be too aghast to speak. For almost a month He labored over his speech, writing it out in large notes on a part of typing paper. He read it over and over afresh, hoping that He would remember sufficient in order that when He tried to read it, He wouldn't stumble or stutter, or get lost.

Discussion

Discovery/Work/Legacy

It was 1973 when He "finished" school, and that happening just happened to coincide with the time his dad was ready to retire from his sand and gravel enterprise in Shelby. He traded his enterprise to his male sibling Jim and me for a good cost, and He did his best to discover to deal with hefty equipment. Jim was taught in motor mechanics, and liked to be sand and gravel businessman. He was taught in geology and liked to be a paleontologist. For a year and a half He worked with his male sibling driving concrete motor trucks and Caterpillar tractors, but all the while, He dreamed of being a paleontologist. (Schweitzer 1952)

On weekends, He motored 70 miles to the little village of Rudyard where his ally Bob Makela educated high school, and he and He would proceed out dinosaur hunting. It was not ever rather sufficient, so He started writing notes to every repository in the English speaking world asking if they had any occupations open for any individual ranging from a technician to a director.

A couple of months subsequent, He got ...