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Ostrom officially retired from Yale in 1992, but continued to write and research as a professor emeritus until his health failed. [16] [27] Ostrom died from complications of Alzheimer's disease in July 2005 at the age of 77 in Litchfield, Connecticut.
John H. Ostrom, a paleontologist influential in the revival of scientific research about dinosaurs, notably previously unsuspected clues to their speed and agility and their probable ancestral link...
Jul 21, 2005 · Dr. John Ostrom, a Yale University paleontologist who pursued the idea that birds descended from dinosaurs, helping to revolutionize our thinking about the extinct creatures, has died. He was...
Jul 21, 2005 · Ostrom, 77, had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease for several years and died of pneumonia. Before Ostrom’s work, dinosaurs were widely considered to be slow-footed, indolent, cold-blooded and...
Elinor Ostrom was a dedicated scholar until the very end of her life. Indeed, on the day before she died, she sent e-mail messages to at least two different sets of coauthors about papers that she was writing with them.
On Ostrom’s death in 2005, age 77, the Los Angeles Times wrote that he had “almost single-handedly convinced the scientific community that birds are descended from dinosaurs.” “John Ostrom,” the Sunday Times (London) added, “did more than anyone else to make dinosaurs interesting, real, and visceral.”.
Jul 20, 2005 · Dr. John H. Ostrom, one of the most influential figures in 20th century dinosaur paleontology, died peacefully at The Sarah Pierce Assisted Living Community in Litchfield, CT, on July 16, 2005 of complications of Alzheimers Disease.
