Luis M. Chiappe

Argentine paleontologist · Argentina · On the map · Academics · Born 1962 · age 64

Luis María Chiappe is an Argentine paleontologist born in Buenos Aires who is best known for his discovery of the first sauropod nesting sites in the badlands of Patagonia in 1997 and for his work on the origin and early evolution of Mesozoic birds.

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A life in dates

2019Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAward2005Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research AwardAward1995Guggenheim FellowshipAward1962Born18 June 1962

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Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science2019

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award2005

Guggenheim Fellowship1995

About this person

He has been the Senior Vice President of Research and Collections at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County since 2012 and was the founding director of the museum's Dinosaur Institute. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the American Museum of Natural History, New York after immigrating from Argentina. Chiappe curated the award-winning Dinosaur Hall at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and led the decade-long work on the green dinosaur Gnatalie which culminated with a new mount in the NHM Commons.

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Argentina