Henry Fairfield Osborn
Henry Fairfield Osborn (August 8, 1857 - November 6, 1935) was an American paleontologist and geologist.
Osborn was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, and studied at Princeton University. He made his first fossil-hunting expedition to Colorado and Wyoming in 1877. He was professor of comparative anatomy from 1883 to 1890 at Princeton University. In 1891 he became professor of biology at Columbia University, becoming professor of zoology in 1896. He was president of the American Museum of Natural History from 1908 to 1935, during which time he accumulated one of the finest fossil collections in the world. In 1905 he described and named Tyrannosaurus rex.
Osborn wrote an influential textbook, The Age of Mammals (1910).
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