Don Lessem

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Don "Dino" Lessem (* 1951 ) is an author of popular science books on dinosaurs .

Life

Skeleton reconstruction of Lessemsaurus sauropoides , named after Don Lessem

Lessem studied art history at Brandeis University and ethology at the University of Massachusetts Boston . After studying he did research at the Smithsonian , where his writing career began. During a stay at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988, his interest in paleontology developed . He published his first book in the field, Kings of Creation, in 1990.

Lessem worked as a consultant for the film Jurassic Park and for the corresponding theme parks. The Lessemsaurus dinosaur is named after him. He is the founder of the Dinosaur Society and the Jurassic Foundation, which raise funds for dinosaur research.

Publications (selection)

  • Dinosaur researcher: The adventurous search for a time gone by , Springer, 2017, ISBN 978-3-0348-6178-6
  • With John Bindon: The smartest dinosaurs , Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co., 2005, ISBN 0-822-51373-0
  • With Jan Sovak: Scholastic dinosaurs AZ: the ultimate dinosaur encyclopedia , New York: Scholastic, 2003, ISBN 0-439-16591-1
  • With David Peters: Supergiants! : the biggest dinosaurs , Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown & Company, 1997, ISBN 0-31652118-3
  • Kings of creation: how a new breed of scientists is revolutionizing our understanding of dinosaurs , New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992, ISBN 0-671-73491-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IMDb: Jurassic Park (1993) Full Cast & Crew
  2. ^ The Dinosaur Society Wants a Bite
  3. ↑ Homepage of the foundation
personal data
SURNAME Lessem, Don
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lessem, Don Dino; Lessem, Dino; Dino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Author of popular science books on dinosaurs
DATE OF BIRTH 1951