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Luis M. Chiappe
Argentine paleontologist (born 1962) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Luis María Chiappe (born 18 June 1962) is an Argentine paleontologist born in Buenos Aires who is best known for his discovery of the first sauropod nesting sites in the badlands of Patagonia in 1997 and for his work on the origin and early evolution of Mesozoic birds. He is currently the Vice President of Research and Collections at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and director of the museum's Dinosaur Institute.[1] He was a postdoctoral researcher at the American Museum of Natural History, New York after immigrating from Argentina. Chiappe is currently the curator of the award winning Dinosaur Hall at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County,[2] an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California,[3] BBC advisor and author of scientific and popular books.[4]
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Born | 18 June 1962 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Occupation(s) | Paleontologist, Professor, Vice President of Research and Collections at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Author |
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Fields | Paleontology |
Institutions | Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County |
Doctoral students | Jingmai O'Connor |
Chiappe is a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,[5] a laureate of the Alexander Humboldt Foundation, and a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing.[6]