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Charles Kimberlin Brain (C. K. 'Bob' Brain), born in Southern Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe) in 1931, is an eminent South African paleontologist who has studied and taught African cave taphonomy for more than fifty years. ==Biography== From 1965 to 1991, Dr. Brain directed the Transvaal Museum, which became one of the most scientifically productive institutions of its kind in Africa during his tenure. During his years at the Museum, Bob Brain actively pursued his own research, which was A-rated by the Foundation for Research Development (now the National Research Foundation of South Africa) from the inception of its evaluation system in 1984 until his retirement. Brain planned and scripted the displays in the Museum's "Life’s Genesis I" and "Life's Genesis 2" halls, which have been seen by several million visitors. Very early in Bob Brain's career, Robert Ardrey wrote of him: Although Dr. Brain retired in 1996, he is active as Curator Emeritus at the Transvaal Museum, an Honorary Professor of Zoology at the University of the Witswatersrand, an active Research Associate at the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, and Chief Scientific Advisor to the Palaeo-Anthropology Scientific Trust (PAST). He is an active researcher of fossils of the earliest animals and is co-ordinating a renewed excavation initiative at the Swartkrans Cave. He is a consulting editor for the ''Annals of the Eastern Cape Museums.'' In its 2006 Lifetime Achiever tribute to Bob Brain, the National Research Foundation of South Africa said: Bob Brain has been an invited participant at over thirty international conferences and symposia worldwide. He and his wife have four children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Kimberlin Brain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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