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Leakey, Richard E

LC control no.n 77010797
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Personal name headingLeakey, Richard E.
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Variant(s)Leakey, R. E. F. (Richard E. F.)
See alsoFounder of: Kenya Museum Society
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Associated countryKenya United States
Associated placeStony Brook (N.Y.)
Birth date1944-12-19
Death date2022-01-02
Place of birthNairobi (Kenya)
Place of deathNairobi (Kenya)
AffiliationKenya. Wildlife Conservation and Management Department
Kenya Wildlife Service
Kenya Wildlife Service
Stony Brook University
Profession or occupationAuthors Paleontologists Conservationists Museum directors Politicians
Found inLeakey, M. G. Koobi Fora ... 1978 (a.e.) t.p. (Richard E. Leakey) pub. info. (R. E. F. Leakey, dir., Natl. Mus., Nairobi)
Brit. CIP data.
His One life, 1984, c1983: t.p. (Richard E. Leakey) p. 10 (b. 12/19/44 in Kenya)
Richard E. Leakey, 1995: p. 3 (Richard Erskine Frere Leakey)
Wikipedia, viewed January 3, 2022 (Richard E. Leakey, died January 2, 2022 near Nairobi, Kenya; born in Nairobi, British Kenya 12/19/1944. Kenyan palaeoanthropologist, conservationist and politician, had been Director of the National Museum of Kenya, founded the NGO WildlifeDirect in 2004 and was the chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service from 1989-January 1994 (organization known as the Wildlife Conservation and Management Department from 1989 to 1990), and re-appointed again in 2015. Founded the Kenya Museum Associates, now the Kenya Museum Society in 1967. Served as a professor of anthropology at Stony Brook University, New York in 2002)
Associated languageeng