# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/derek-briggs
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:44:12.362Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/derek-briggs"
name: "Derek Briggs"
slug: "derek-briggs"
description: "Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs is an Irish palaeontologist and taphonomist. He is the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor in the department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale University and Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology and former Director of the Yale Peabody Museum."
tagline: "Irish paleontologist (born 1950)"
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birthDate: "1950-01-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump