David Bruce Norman is a British paleontologist, currently Director of the Sedgwick Museum

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, opened in 1904, is the geology museum of the University of Cambridge in England. It is part of the Department of Earth Sciences and is located on the University's Downing Site in Downing Street, central Cambridge, England.The Sedgwick has a collection of more...

, Cambridge University.

He is a fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge

Christ's College, Cambridge

Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.With a reputation for high academic standards, Christ's College averaged top place in the Tompkins Table from 1980-2000 . In 2011, Christ's was placed sixth.-College history:...

 where he teaches geology in the Natural Sciences tripos. He is a member of the Palaeontological Association

Palaeontological Association

The Palaeontological Association is a charitable organisation based in the UK founded in 1957 for the promotion of the study of palaeontology.-Functions:...

. He has studied Iguanodon

Iguanodon

Iguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs...

. Equijubus

Equijubus

Equijubus, meaning "horse mane" after the area in which it was found, is a genus of herbivorous hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of northwestern China.-Discovery and naming:...

species epithet ("normani") was named to honour him.

He also possesses a keen interest in rugby, as he regularly referees for the Cambridge college leagues.

Works

• The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs (1985).
• The Big Book of Dinosaurs, Random House Inc, ISBN 9780941807487
• "The phylogeny of the ornithischian dinosaurs", Journal of Systematic Palaeontology (2008), 6:1-40 Cambridge University Press