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Dino find
among Discover top 100
Magazine recognizes work of NC State paleontologist
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Roger Winstead / Creative Services |
| NC State paleontologist Mary Schweitzer’s discovery of soft tissue in the bones of a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex has been recognized by Discover magazine as one of the top 100 science stories of 2005. |
Dr. Mary Schweitzer caused quite a stir last year with her discovery of soft tissue in the bones of a 68-million- year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex. A big enough stir, in fact, to make it onto Discover magazine’s list of the top 100 science stories of 2005.
Each year, the January issue of Discover features a series of short items describing and ranking the previous year’s top 100 science stories. NC State has been notified that recent discoveries by Schweitzer, a member of the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, will be ranked in the January 2006 issue. This will be the first time the work of a specific NC State faculty member has been ranked in the publication.
Discover will not reveal its rankings before the magazine reaches newsstands Dec. 13.
“Given the amazing science that has come out this year in all the varied disciplines, and especially in paleontology, I am incredibly honored to have made the list,” Schweitzer says. “Discover always sets very high standards for this honor, and I am really excited that the work Jennifer Wittmeyer (Schweitzer’s technician) and I did is even considered for this.”
“It’s exciting for one of our faculty members to be singled out for this distinction,” said Dean Daniel L. Solomon of the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. “It further affirms the significance of Dr. Schweitzer’s findings, and exemplifies the College’s emphasis on high-impact research at the interface of the biological and physical sciences.”
Posted Dec. 9, 2005
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