Euan Clarkson

Euan N.K. Clarkson FRSE (born 1937) is a British palaeontologist and writer.

Career

Euan Clarkson studied geology at the University of Cambridge and had a long career as a palaeontologist at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.[1] Clarkson's most notable research occurred in the study of trilobites (especially visual systems),[2][3] Paleozoic stratigraphy and the discovery of the Conodont[4] animal.[5]

Euan Clarkson has a sustained record of publication and teaching, has authored some 100+ papers and other publications, including a book that is widely regarded as the ‘standard’[1] palaeontological text for undergraduates.[6]

Clarkson was president of the Edinburgh Geological Society (1985-87), a trustee of the Natural History Museum (1987-92) and president of the Palaeontological Association (1998-200).[7] Clarkson was awarded the Geological Society of London's Coke medal in 2010.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Geological Society of London, Coke medal award
  2. ↑ Clarkson, E. N. K.; Levi-Setti, R. L. (1975), "Trilobite eyes and the optics of Descartes and Huygens", Nature 254 (5502): 663–7, doi:10.1038/254663a0, PMID 1091864
  3. ↑ Clarkson, E. N. K. (1979), "The Visual System of Trilobites", Palaeontology 22: 1–22, doi:10.1007/3-540-31078-9_67
  4. ↑ Aldridge, R. J.; Briggs, D. E. G.; Smith, M. P.; Clarkson, E. N. K.; Clark, N. D. L. (1993). "The anatomy of conodonts". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 340: 405–421. doi:10.1098/rstb.1993.0082.
  5. ↑ Briggs, D. E. G.; Clarkson, E. N. K.; Aldridge, R. J. (1983). "The conodont animal". Lethaia 16 (1): 1–14. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1983.tb01993.x.
  6. ↑ Clarkson, E. N. K. (1998), Invertebrate Paleontology and Evolution (4th ed.), Oxford: Wiley/Blackwell Science, p. 452, ISBN 0-632-05238-4
  7. ↑ Debrett's authorized biography

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