Derek Briggs

Derek Briggs
Derek Briggs
Born	Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs; 10 January 1950; Ireland
Nationality	Irish
Alma mater	Trinity College Dublin; Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge;
Known for	Burgess Shale; Cambrian explosion; Hunsrück Slate;
Awards	FRS (1999); Lyell Medal (2000); Boyle Medal (2001);
	Scientific career
Fields	Paleontology
Institutions	Peabody Museum of Natural History; Goldsmiths, University of London; University of Bristol; Yale University;
Thesis	Arthropods from the Burgess Shale, Middle Cambrian, Canada (1976)
Doctoral advisor	Harry Whittington
Website	peabody.yale.edu/about-us/directors-welcome; people.earth.yale.edu/profile/derek-briggs/about;

Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs (born 10 January 1950) is an Irish palaeontologist and taphonomist based at Yale University. Briggs is one of three palaeontologists, along with Harry Blackmore Whittington and Simon Conway Morris, who were key in the reinterpretation of the fossils of the Burgess Shale. He is the Yale University G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History, and former Director of the Peabody Museum.

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