Gideon Mantell
1790
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1852
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
occupation: geologist, paleontologist, naturalist, obstetrician, botanist
award received: Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal medal, Wollaston Medal
Gideon Algernon Mantell MRCS FRS (3 February 1790 – 10 November 1852) was an English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist. His attempts to reconstruct the structure and life of Iguanodon began the scientific study of dinosaurs: in 1822 he was responsible for the discovery (and the eventual identification) of the first fossil teeth, and later much of the skeleton, of Iguanodon. Mantell's work on the Cretaceous of southern England was also important. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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