Scott Hocknull
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Scott Hocknull (born 1977) is an Australian palaeontologist specialising in fossil vertebrates and Senior Curator in Geology at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane. He was the 2002 recipient of the Young Australian of the Year Award.[1]
He is the youngest Australian to date to hold a museum curatorship and has described and named 10 new species and four new genera,[2] including (in cooperation with the original finder Robyn Mackenzie) a giant Sauropod Australotitan cooperensis.[3]
Awards
[edit]- National and Queensland Career Achiever, 2002
- Queensland Science and Technology Achiever, 2002
- National Career Achiever, 2002
- Centenary Medalist, 2003
- Neville Stephens Medal, Geological Society of Australia, 2005
- Riversleigh Medal, 2009
- Rising Stars of Queensland Science, 2015
- 10 Best of the Best of Queensland's 50 Top Thinkers, 2015
References
[edit]- ↑ "Young Australian of the Year 2002". National Australia Day Council. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- ↑ Profile at UNSW.edu
- ↑ Hocknull SA, Wilkinson M, Lawrence RA, Konstantinov V, Mackenzie S, Mackenzie R. 2021. A new giant sauropod, Australotitan cooperensis gen. et sp. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia. PeerJ 9:e11317, persistent access doi
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