Colin Patterson (biologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Colin Patterson (biologist)

British paleontologist

Date of Birth: 13-Oct-1933

Place of Birth: Hammersmith, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 09-Mar-1998

Profession: zoologist, paleontologist, ichthyologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Colin Patterson FRS (1933–1998), was a British palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in London from 1962 to his official retirement in 1993 who specialised in fossil fish and systematics, advocating the transformed cladistics school.