Jack Horner

John R. “Jack” Horner has been digging for dinosaurs in his home state of Montana most of his life. Although never completing a formal college degree, he attended the University of Montana where he received an Honorary Doctorate of Science in 1986. Also in 1986 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, otherwise known as the “Genius Grant.” Jack and his teams discovered the first evidence of parental care in dinosaurs, extensive nesting grounds, evidence of dinosaur herds, and the world’s first dinosaur embryos. Jack has named several new species of dinosaurs, and two dinosaur species have been named after him. Jack has published more than 170 professional papers, 8 popular books, and more than 100 popular articles. His book Digging Dinosaurs was described by New Scientist Magazine as one of the 200 most important science books of the 20th Century. Jack directs the largest dinosaur field research program in the world. He was the technical advisor for Steven Spielberg on all of the Jurassic Park movies, and has worked with National Geographic, BBC, and The Discovery Channel on numerous dinosaur specials. Jack has been profiled in Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, Discover, and many other National magazines, and was featured in a “60 Minutes” piece interviewed by Leslie Stahl in 2009. Jack is Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies, and Regent’s Professor of Paleontology at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. He is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian Institution, and an Honorary Research Fellow with the Natural History Museum in London.