Edwin H. Colbert

(1905-2001) lived in Lincoln. Paleontologist, author, educator, served as a curator for 40 years at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, was an authority who was largely responsible for arousing interest in the study of dinosaurs, authored or co-authored more than 50 books and 350 scientific papers, elected to National Academy of Sciences in 1957. Consult Saturday Evening Post, August 6, 1949, pp. 20-21, 68, 70 and The New Yorker, August 4, 1956, pp. 18-19 and Current Biography (1965) 91-94 and Contemporary Authors-New Revision Series, Vol 8 Gale, 1983) 107-108 and New York Times obituary, November 25, 2001, p. A-47.

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