BIOLOGIST

Philip J. Currie

1949 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philip J. Currie has received more than 116,083 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Philip J. Currie is the 1,055th most popular biologist, the 780th most popular biography from Canada and the 13th most popular Canadian Biologist.

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  • 2.86

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Philip J. Currie ranks 1,055 out of 1,097. Before him are Frank Fenner, Joanne Chory, Philippa Marrack, George Don, Patricia Goldman-Rakic, and Annie Montague Alexander. After him are Storrs L. Olson, Suzanne Cory, Ronald M. Evans, Frederic Moore, Eugenie Clark, and Edward Bagnall Poulton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Philip J. Currie ranks 757. Before him are Jerry Harrison, Daniel Giger, Ernie Sabella, Hans Lutz, Bruce Fairbairn, and Walter Browne. After him are Junior Murvin, Joyce DeWitt, Ronald M. Evans, Frank L. Culbertson Jr., Jenny Lamy, and Susan Lindquist.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Philip J. Currie ranks 780 out of 1,622. Before him are Bob Houbregs (1932), Vic Lindquist (1908), Martin Brodeur (1972), Peter New (1971), Bruce Fairbairn (1949), and Myriam Bédard (1969). After him are Joël Lautier (1973), Christina Cox (1971), Stephen Elop (1963), Sylvia Fedoruk (1927), Eddie Shore (1902), and Dylan Neal (1969).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Canada

Among biologists born in Canada, Philip J. Currie ranks 13. Before him are Robert H. MacArthur (1930), Peter Watts (1958), Alice Wilson (1881), Severn Cullis-Suzuki (1979), Alice Eastwood (1859), and Carrie Derick (1862). After him are Cordelia Fine (1975).

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