Charles Mortram Sternberg

Charles Mortram Sternberg
Born	1885
Died	1981
Fields	Paleontology

Charles M. Sternberg (1885–1981) was an American-Canadian fossil collector and paleontologist, son of Charles Hazelius Sternberg. Late in his career, he collected and described Pachyrhinosaurus, Brachylophosaurus, Parksosaurus and Edmontonia.^{[citation needed]} A contemporary author wrote, "No published study of Canadian dinosaurs is possible today without citing one or another of Sternberg's papers."^[1]

Early life

Charles Mortram Sternberg was born in Lawrence, Kansas,^{[citation needed]} from a family of famous American fossil collectors. Sternberg's highest level of education was a Kansas high school degree.^[1][2]

Career

Sternberg moved with his father and two brothers, Levi and George, to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1912.^[1] The four began working in Alberta collecting dinosaurs on behalf of the Geological Survey of Canada. This work was in competition with the American Museum of Natural History (New York) who were collecting many fossil skeletons and shipping them out of Canada.

Following Lawrence M. Lambe's death in 1919, Sternberg assumed the role of director of paleontology enterprise of the Geological Survey of Canada. Sternberg's first paper appeared in 1921, supplementing Lambe's study of the Ankylosaur Panoplosaurus.^[1] Sternberg later took over the scientific description of fossil vertebrates for the Geological Survey. He published 47 papers on fossil vertebrates, mostly dinosaurs, many based on his own remarkable discoveries.^{[citation needed]} In 1948 he was promoted to the rank of Assistant Biologist in the National Museum of Canada, which is the equivalent of curator. In 1949 he was elected a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada.^[2] Although he retired in 1950, his publications continued until 1970.^[3] Sternberg later helped to establish Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta.^[4] He was granted honourary degrees by the University of Calgary and Carleton University in Ottawa.^[2]

He was Freemason and a member of Civil Service Lodge No. 148 in Ottawa.^[5]

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Dodson, Peter (1998). The Horned Dinosaurs. Princeton University Press. pp. 62. ISBN 9780691059006. http://books.google.com/books?id=NsBhg_H5FEwC&lpg=PA177&ots=0vPgYKFSKL&dq=Sternberg%20%22Dinosaur%20Provincial%20Park%22&pg=PA99#v=snippet&q=Sternberg%20&f=false. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Carpenter, Kenneth; Philip J. Currie (1992). Dinosaur systematics. Cambridge University Press. pp. xii. ISBN 9780521438100. http://books.google.com/books?id=6ZV1KcVNM18C&lpg=PR12&dq=%22Charles%20Sternberg%22%20paleontologist%20Mortram&pg=PR12#v=onepage&q=son&f=false. 
3. ^ Dodson, Peter (1998). The Horned Dinosaurs. Princeton University Press. pp. 62. ISBN 9780691059006. http://books.google.com/books?id=NsBhg_H5FEwC&lpg=PA177&ots=0vPgYKFSKL&dq=Sternberg%20%22Dinosaur%20Provincial%20Park%22&pg=PA99#v=snippet&q=Sternberg%20&f=false.  "nominally retired"
4. ^ Currie, Philip J.; Eva Bundgaard Koppelhus (2005). Dinosaur Provincial Park. Indiana University Press. pp. 12. ISBN 9780253345950. http://books.google.com/books?id=lS55girEQsEC&lpg=PA10&dq=Sternberg%20%22Dinosaur%20Provincial%20Park%22&pg=PA12#v=onepage&q=Sternberg%20%22Dinosaur%20Provincial%20Park%22&f=false. 
5. ^ "Civil Service Lodge, No. 148 GRC, Ottawa 1865-present". http://www.iosphere.net/~dixonr/Files/HistoryExtract.pdf. Retrieved 2009-08-03. 

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Name	Sternberg, Charles Mortram
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Date of birth	1885
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Date of death	1981
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