work_institution nationality field birth_date article_title name
johns hopkins university usa paleontology 16 november 1952 david b. weishampel
 david b. weishampel
david b. weishampel

professor david bruce weishampel -lrb- born november 16 , 1952 -rrb- is an american palaeontologist in the center for functional anatomy and evolution at johns hopkins university school of medicine .
weishampel received his ph.d. in geology from the university of pennsylvania in 1981 .
his research focuses include dinosaur systematics , european dinosaurs of the late cretaceous , jaw mechanics and herbivory , cladistics and heterochrony and the history of evolutionary biology .
weishampel 's most well known published work is `` the dinosauria '' university of california press ; 2nd edition -lrb- december 1 , 2004 -rrb- .
he consulted for `` jurassic park '' and is a good friend of steven spielberg .
he has received an academy scientific and technical award .
