Richard Fortey

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Biography
Fortey is famous for his paleontological research on trilobites and graptolites and is known to non-specialist readers for writing some successful scientific disclosure books. He has been a member of the Royal Society since 1997 and has been president of the Geological Society of London in 2006-2008. He was previously a research manager at the Natural History Museum in London. He participated in numerous paleontological expeditions in various countries, including Italy, Cyprus and the island of Newfoundland.

Recognition
In 1996 he received the Medal Lyell .
In 2000 he received the Frink Medal.
In 2006 he received the Michael Faraday Prize .
In 2009 he received the Linnean Legacy Award .

Work
Richard A. Fortey, The ordovician trilobites of Spitsbergen, Oslo: Norsk Polarinstitutt, 1974-1975.
Richard A. Fortey, Fossils: the key to the past, First edition, London: Heinemann, 1982. Second edition, Cambridge: Harvard University press, 1991. Third edition, London: Natural History Museum, 2002.
Richard A. Fortey, Earth: an intimate story (original title The Earth: An Intimate History), translation by Giuliana Olivero, Turin: Code; Rome: Science, 2007.
Richard A. Fortey, Age: four billion years (original title Life: An Unauthorized Biography. A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth), Translation of Isabella C. Blum, Milan: Mondolibri, stampa 2000.
Richard A. Fortey and R. H. Thomas (eds), Arthropod relations, The Systematics association special volumes, London: Chapman & Hall, 1998, ISBN 0412754207.
Philip D. Lane, Derek J. Siveter and Richard A. Fortey (eds), Trilobites and their relateds: contributions from the third international conference, Oxford 2001, London: the Palaeontological association, 2003.
Richard A. Fortey, The Hidden Landscape: Journey into the Geological Past, London; Jonathan Cape, 1993, ISBN 0712660402

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External links

"The age of the earth": an article by Richard A. Fortey in TLS, 9 January 2008

Members of the Royal Society