The AL du Toit Memorial Lecturer for 2002

摘要

Bruce Rubidge was born in Graaff-Reinet in 1956 and grew up on the family farm in the district. From an early age he became interested in fossils, collecting his first worthwhile fossil, a gorgonopsian, at the age of 5. He received his schooling at the Union High School, Graaff-Reinet and later St Andrew's College, Grahamstown. He attended the University of Stellenbosch where he achieved his BSc, BSc (Hons) cum laude, and MSc cum laude. In 1980 Bruce was appointed as a researcher in the Palaeontology Department of the National Museum in Bloemfontein, where he become Head of the Department in 1981. While in the employ of the National museum, he completed a PhD through the Geology Department of the University of Port Elizabeth. In 1990 he was appointed Director of the BPI Palaeontology and Head of the Palaeontology Department of the University of the Witwatersrand. He has published more than 60 articles in national and international scientific journals on various aspects of vertebrate palaeontology as well as bio-and litho-stratigraphy and sedimentology of Permian-Triassic rocks of southern Africa. He serves on several national and international geoscience committees.