Gideon Mantell

  • male, deceased (1852)
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Description:
Gideon Algernon Mantell (February 3, 1790 - November 10 1852) was an English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist. He is credited with discovering the first fossils identified as originating from a dinosaur, which were teeth belonging to an "Iguanodon". Wikipedia
Born:
February 3, 1790
Died:
November 29, 1852
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  • NNDB

    www.nndb.com/people/048/000095760/

  • A history of dinosaur...

    A history of dinosaur hunting and reconstruction - this page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.
    www.dinohunters.com/

  • Wikipedia

    The definitive Wikipedia entry for Gideon Mantell. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Mantell

  • Rocky Road: Gideon Mantell

    Legend has it that while the country doctor Gideon Mantell was visiting a patient, his wife Mary Ann took a short stroll as she waited for him, and when Mantell finished his house call, she presented him with a puzzling tooth.
    www.strangescience.net/mantell.htm

  • Mantell

    Born to a shoemaker in Lewes, East Sussex, Mantell went into the medical career. He was apprenticed in 1805, and was later awarded his Diploma as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS).
    palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/History/mantell.xhtml