Platnick, Norman I

LC control no.	n 80023594
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Platnick, Norman I. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Other standard no.	0000000084533517 75143765 Q1333409
Birth date	1951-12-30
Death date	2020-04-08
Field of activity	Spiders--Research Cladistic analysis
Affiliation	American Museum of Natural History
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Found in	His The spider family Anyphaenidae ... 1974. Information from 678 converted Dec. 15, 2014 (Dept. of Entomology, American Museum of Natural History) New York times, Apr. 22, 2020 (Norman Platnick; born Norman Ira Platnick Dec. 30, 1951 in Bluefield, West Va., died Apr. 8 in Philadelphia, aged 68; the science world's friendly neighborhood spider maven; curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, he added 158 [spider] genera and 2,023 species to the taxonomic database, helping to expand the known world of spiders to 48,000 species; often referred to by the press as "the real Spider-Man"; after completing his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1973 (at age 21), Dr. Platnick joined the American Museum of Natural History, where he also made important contributions to the field of cladistics, which categorizes species along the lines of shared characteristics to build evolutionary trees)