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Philip J. Currie

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Philip John Currie (born March 13, 1949) is a Canadian palaeontologist and museum curator who helped found the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta and is now a professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. In the 1980s, he became the director of the Canada-China Dinosaur Project, the first cooperative palaeontological partnering between China and the West since the Central Asiatic Expeditions in the 1920s, and helped describe some of the first feathered dinosaurs. He is one of the primary editors of the influential Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, and his areas of expertise include theropods (especially Tyrannosauridae), the origin of birds, and dinosaurian migration patterns and herding behavior. He was one of the models for palaeontologist Alan Grant in the film Jurassic Park. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Philip J. Currie is the 1,050th most popular biologist (up from 1,055th in 2019), the 734th most popular biography from Canada (up from 782nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Canadian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Philip J. Currie ranks 1,050 out of 1,097. Before him are Peter Watts, Margaret Morse Nice, Ronald M. Evans, William Forsell Kirby, Paul Sereno, and Henry Weed Fowler. After him are Christof Koch, Carrie Derick, Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Francis Maitland Balfour, Angelika Amon, and Edward Donovan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Philip J. Currie ranks 725. Before him are Natalya Lebedeva, Peter Kern, Paul Shaffer, Isabelle Mir, Terry Zwigoff, and Alfonso Pérez. After him are Charles Rocket, Alfredo Quesada, Zyta Gilowska, Walter Browne, Daniel Leclercq, and Hannu Siitonen.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Philip J. Currie ranks 734 out of 1,622. Before him are Art Ross (1885), Beattie Ramsay (1895), Sheila McCarthy (1956), Rachel Cusk (1967), Paul Shaffer (1949), and Maria Klawe (1951). After him are Carrie Derick (1862), Jonathan Crombie (1966), Haji (1946), Currie Graham (1967), Leonard Peikoff (1933), and Vic Lindquist (1908).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Canada

Among biologists born in Canada, Philip J. Currie ranks 11. Before him are George Romanes (1848), Colin Munro MacLeod (1909), William Diller Matthew (1871), Alice Eastwood (1859), Alice Wilson (1881), and Peter Watts (1958). After him are Carrie Derick (1862), Severn Cullis-Suzuki (1979), and Cordelia Fine (1975).

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