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Gideon Mantell
Gideon Algernon Mantell MRCS FRS was an English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist. His attempts to reconstruct the structure and life of Iguanodon began the scientific study of dinosaurs: in 1822 he was responsible for the discovery of the first fossil teeth, and later much of the skeleton, of Iguanodon. Mantell's work on the Cretaceous of southern England was also important.
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science · British scientist and obstetrician · geologist · paleontologist · naturalist · obstetrician · botanist · scientific collector · physician · also Gideon Mantell, Mantell, G. A. Mantell, Gideon A. Mantell, Mantell, G.A., GA Mantell
Born 3 February 1790 · Died 10 November 1852 · Q348455
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2000· 1 entry
In commemoration of Mantell's discovery and his contribution to the science of palaeontology, the Mantell Monument was unveiled at Whiteman's Green, Cuckfield
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1852· 1 entry
Died 1852-11-10.
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1849· 1 entry
Won Royal Medal (1849).
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1844· 1 entry
And began to take opium, as a painkiller, in 1845
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1841· 1 entry
Began to suffer from what would eventually be diagnosed as scoliosis, possibly precipitated by a carriage accident
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1838· 2 entries
With the title The wonders of geology, or, A familiar exposition of geological phenomena: being the substance of a course of lectures delivered at Brighton
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For £5,000, accepting the counter-offer of £4,000
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1835· 1 entry
Won Wollaston Medal (1835).
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1833· 1 entry
Mantell relocated to Brighton but his medical practice suffered
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1825· 1 entry
The only question was what to call his new reptile
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1822· 2 entries
Was responsible for the discovery (and the eventual identification) of the first fossil teeth, and later much of the skeleton, of Iguanodon
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Shortly before finishing his first book (The Fossils of South Downs), his wife found several large teeth (although some historians contend that they were in fact discovered by himself), the origin of which he could not a
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1821· 1 entry
Mantell planned his next book on the geology of Sussex
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1816· 1 entry
Married Mary Ann Woodhouse, the 20-year-old daughter of one of his former patients who had died three years earlier
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1813· 1 entry
Mantell began to correspond with James Sowerby
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1790· 1 entry
Born 1790-02-03.
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