Derek Briggs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Derek Briggs

Irish paleontologist

Date of Birth: 10-Jan-1950

Place of Birth: Ireland

Profession: biologist, university teacher, paleontologist

Nationality: Ireland

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs (born 10 January 1950) is an Irish palaeontologist and taphonomist based at Yale University.
Briggs is one of three palaeontologists, along with Harry Blackmore Whittington and Simon Conway Morris, who were key in the reinterpretation of the fossils of the Burgess Shale.
He is the Yale University G.
Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History, and former Director of the Peabody Museum.