John Hammond

**Dr. John Alfred Hammond** was the head of InGen and the creator of Jurassic Park.

## John Hammond

### Aliases

Doctor
Sir

## Appearances

### Appears in

*Jurassic Park*
*The Lost World: Jurassic Park*
*Jurassic Park 3*(mentioned)
*Jurassc World*(statue)
*Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom*(mentioned and painting)
*Jurassic World: Dominion*(mentioned)
*Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous*(indirectly mentioned)

## Biography

### Early Life

#### Desires

John Hammond was born in Scotland from a wealthy family, hew grew up with his sister. John would eventually meet his wife and have a daughter. Hammond had interest in becoming a venture capitalist, creating a Flea Circus

#### Animal Kingdom

After gaining money from different sources, Hammond created a preservation park in Kenya, naming it Animal Kingdom. Hammond hired Robert Muldoon as a game warden for the ecological park, following the creation of the park, Hammond created several other tropical destinations all over the world.

### Jurassic Park

#### Creating InGen

At some point, Hammond met Benjamin Lockwood, a young man who shared many ideas with him. The two would soon come up with the idea of bringing dinosaurs back to life. The two found InGen, hiring Henry Wu as their lead scientist. They begin research on a laboratory built underneath the Lockwood Manor.

As their project grows, Hammond buys two islands to continue their research. The first ever dinosaur clone was bred in Isla Sorna, Site B.

#### Theme Park

The idea grew on a larger scale, building a theme-park in the other island. Lockwood's daughter, Charlotte Lockwood would often visit the park, until she was employed by Hammond and worked on the laboratory with the other scientists. hammond hired many professionals, like Robert Muldoon, Ray Arnold, Gerry Harding and Dennis Nedry to work on his dinosaur park.

One day, Lockwood pitched the idea of human cloning, which Hammond pretty much was against. Hammond and Lockwood argued, going their separate ways, as hammond stated human cloning was a unholy thing.

The park was functioning well so far, most species had already been transported, all Hammond needed were people to test it.

### Jurassic Park Incident

#### Endorsers

In 1993, Hammond hired Donald Gennaro, a lawyer, to represent a company on evaluating his park, his two grandchildren, Lex Murphy and Tim Murphy, a Chaotician Ian Malcolm, a Paleobotanist Ellie Sattler and a well known Paleontologist, Alan Grant.

Hammond visited Grant and Sattler personally at their dig site. Firstly John apologized for the mess his helicopter had caused. Hammond began to explain his presence to the archeologists, as to why he was there in the first place. Then he skipped right to the point, telling them about the supposed animal park, and his offer to their further investigations. The two accept the invitations and are happy to comply

#### Introducing

One day later, Hammond is joined b the adults on a helicopter ride, slightly annoyed by Malcolm and his unnecessary comments. As soon as they land on the island, he tells them a lot about some information regarding the park. John asks for the driver to stop the vehicle, and the group sees their first ever dinosaurs, a single Brachiosaurus grazing on a field, freely, introuducing them to Jurassic Park.

Following the encounter, John takes the to the visitors center, where they would get inside a ride. The ride would explain to them how dinosaurs were cloned, in a interactive way, as soon as they get to the laboratory showcase, the visitors break through and go inside. In the laboratory, Henry Wu tells them how the dinosaurs aren't able to breed in the wild, Hammond welcomes a raptor juvenile to the park, in its hatching.

Later on, the visitors head to the raptor pen, where Muldoon and Hammond both share a long conversation with the endorsers, then Hammond offers them food. Inside the private dining room, Hammond isn't happy about how the endorsers receive the parks first impressions, convinced they would change their minds after the tour,

#### Tour

Hammond reunites with his grandchildren, introducing them to the rest of the group. John leaves them as they enter the tour vehicles, heading into the control room. Hammond firstly tells them about the voice that would guide them in the tour and how he spent no expense in the making. The tour was a no show, until Sattler and the other visitors spot a sick *Triceratops* in the valley.

As a tropical storm was about to begin, the humans are suggested to return to the vehicles, but Sattler prefers to stay there and help the dinosaur.

#### Sabotage

After the tropical storm begins, one of the programmers, Dennis Nedry, shuts the system down as he steals embryos from the evacuated laboratory. Unexpectedly, the remaining visitors are attacked by a loose T. Rex that escaped from containment. Hammond sends Sattler and Muldoon after the survivors, however they only find Malcolm, but Grant and the kids had escaped from death, as for Gennaro, he wasn't that lucky.

Hammond and Arnold work together, trying to decode Nedry's hack. Arnold confesses to Hammond, warning him about how Nedry's actions affected the system.

#### System Down

When the rescuers return, they must find alternate options to bring the system back on. Arnold figures out what to do, as he turns on the energy panel, the lights are back on, but they still needed the fencing system and the service to be on. Arnold sets off to bring it back online, but he never returns.

Hammond is confronted by Ellie Sattler, who bluntly tells him the harsh truth, he tells her in a way he never meant this to happen. Soon after, the group takes action and decide to turn the system back up themselves. Ellie and Muldoon team up once again, heading out while Hammond and Malcolm guide them through comms. Sattler manages to bring the service back on, but they loose contact while she's attacked by raptors.

#### Escaping

Following a series of dinosaur encounters including his grandchildren and the missing paleos. Hammond and Malcolm takes a jeep and rescue them from a confrontation between the T. Rex and the escaped raptors. Hammond escapes with his life, along with his grandchildren, returning home safely.

After the incident, Hammond is sued by many families of the deceased staff members, so he lays low at his state in New York.

### Lost World

#### Sickness

In the 4 year break, Hammond had gained a sickness that would affect his walking, forcing him to stay home. In the meantime, he is fired as CEO and he is replaced by nephew, Peter Ludlow.

#### Contacting Gatherers

In 1997, Hammond was planning to send a group of gatherers to Isla Sorna, including Sarah Harding, Nick Van Owen , Eddie Carr and possibly Ian Malcolm. When Malcolm visits Hammond on his room, he argues with him about the decision to gather enough proof of dinosaur health in Sorna,. When Malcilm discovers Hammond allowed, Sarah his girlfriend, to go to the island, he changes his plans to go after her.

#### San Diego Incident

After a series of events take a turn, Hammond is called to attend a CNN Broadcast, where he tells the public about what they should do regarding the dinosaurs well being, and how humans should not touch these creatures, while also using Malcolm's famous phrase, that life always find a way.

### Death

#### Last Moments

Sometime later that year, Hammond passes away due to natural causes, His funeral was attended by his remaining family members and Ian Malcolm.

#### Legacy

Hammond's legacy lived on. Masrani Global, a old ally of Hammond bought InGen, Simon Masrani had the dream of completing Hammond's dream. A successful park was built and Hammond was honored, having a lab dedicated to him, including a golden statue. Hammond would be mentioned and remembered by many in the time.

After Nublar's volcano became active again, Lockwood contacted Claire Dearing to save the dinosaurs from going extinct, Dearing spots a painting of Hammond hanging on the walls of the manor.