David B. Norman

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David Bruce Norman (born 20 June 1952 in the

Cambridge University.[1] From 1991 to 2011, Norman has also been the Sedgwick Museum's director.[2]

Life and career

Norman is a fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he teaches Earth Sciences in the Natural Sciences tripos. A member of the Palaeontological Association,[3] he has studied Iguanodon[4] and also has participated in the studies and scientific surveys included in the dinosaur work The Dinosauria (2nd edition, 2004). The species epithet of Equijubus normani was named in honour of him.[5]

In 2017, Norman was one of three British palaeontologists who proposed a radical new hypothesis for early

dinosaur evolution and interrelationships in a paper in the journal Nature. In this work, Matthew Grant Baron, Norman and Paul Michael Barrett (2017) suggested that Ornithischia and Theropoda were closely related as part of a new clade that they named Ornithoscelida.[6]

He also possesses a keen interest in rugby, and he regularly referees for Cambridge University.[7]

Works

Children books

  • The Poster Book of Dinosaurs, Hodder Children's Books, 1988 (illustrations by John Sibbick)
  • The Humongous Book of Dinosaurs, Publisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang (April 1997) ;
  • The Big Book of Dinosaurs, Publisher: Welcome Books (April 2001) ;
  • Dinosaurs Sticker Book, Usborne Sticker Books, 2010,

Popular science books

Scientific books and surveys

TV documentaries

Crew member, as a scientific advisor

On screen, as himself

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