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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 has been the Senior Vice President of Research and Collections at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County since 2012 and was the founding 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 curated the award-winning Dinosaur Hall at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County,[2]and led the decade-long work on the green dinosaur Gnatalie which culminated with a new mount in the NHM Commons. [3]
Chiappe is a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,[4] a laureate of the Alexander Humboldt Foundation, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[5] an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California,[6] and a member of the Real Academia de Ciencias de España.[7]
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Chiappe has published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, with nearly 17,000 citations.[8] He has numerous publications in high-profile scientific journals, including Nature, Science, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Current Biology, Gondwana Research, PNAS, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, and Scientific Reports. He is best known for his extensive work on the origin and early evolution of birds, although he is also well-known for work on sauropod nesting sites and embryos from Patagonia, on which he has authored several books and articles,[9][10] and on pterosaur embryos.[11][12]
Below is a list of taxa that Chiappe has contributed to naming:
Books
- Chiappe, L.M.; Qingjin, M. 2016. Birds of Stone. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), ISBN 978-1421420240.
- Chiappe, L.M. 2007. Glorified Dinosaurs: The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds. (Wiley-Liss,2007), ISBN 978-0471247234.
- Dingus, L.; Chiappe, L.M. The Tiniest Giants: Discovering Dinosaur Eggs (Doubleday Books, 1999), ISBN 0385326424.
- Chiappe, L.M.; Dingus, L. Walking on Eggs: The Astonishing Discovery of Thousands of Dinosaur Eggs in the Badlands of Patagonia (Scribner, 2001), ISBN 0-7432-1377-7.
- Chiappe, L.M.; Dingus, L. The Lost Dinosaurs: The Astonishing Discovery of the World's Largest Prehistoric Nesting Ground (Abacus, 2002), ISBN 0-3491-1351-3
- Chiappe, L.M.; Witmer L. Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs (University of California Press, 2002), ISBN 0-520-20094-2.
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In popular culture
Chiappe has been featured in many TV documentaries, including the 2016 BBC documentary, Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur, showing Sir David Attenborough the dinosaur egg nesting site at Auca Mahuevo, and eggs from that site in the Museo Carmen Funes in Plaza Huincul, Neuquén Province, Argentina.
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