{{Short description|Brazilian paleontologist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Llewellyn Ivor Price | image = Llewellyn_Ivor_Price.png | image_size = 175px | caption = Price between 1948 and 1960 holding the {{convert|1.3|m|ft}} long femur of a sauropod dinosaur | birth_date = {{birth date|1905|10|9|df=y}} | birth_place = Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | death_date = {{death date and age|1980|6|9|1905|10|9|df=y}} | death_place = Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | field = Palaeontology, geology | work_institution = | alma_mater = | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = | author_abbreviation_bot = | author_abbreviation_zoo = | prizes = | footnotes = }}
'''Llewellyn Ivor Price''' (9 October 1905 – 9 June 1980) was one of the first Brazilian paleontologists. His work contributed not only to the development of Brazilian but also to global paleontology. He collected ''Staurikosaurus'' in 1936, the first dinosaur discovered in Brazil.
==Biography== [[File:Llewellyn_Ivor_Price_laboratory.png|thumb|250px|left|Price in his laboratory preparing the fossils of a titanosaurian sauropod between 1948 and 1960]] Price was born in Santa Maria on 9 October 1905. The son of American parents, he studied chemistry and graduated in zoology and geology in the United States. After being professor at Harvard he returned to Brazil.
He died of a heart attack in Rio de Janeiro on 9 June 1980, aged 74.
The Paleontological Research Center "Llewellyn Ivor Price" established in Peirópolis in 1991, was named in honor of Price.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-02 |title=Portal UFTM |url=https://www.uftm.edu.br/component/content/article?id=1592 |access-date=2025-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250102005139/https://www.uftm.edu.br/component/content/article?id=1592 |archive-date=2 January 2025 }}</ref>
==Awards==
* In 1980 he was awarded the ''José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva'' prize by the Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia.<ref>http://www.sbgeo.org.br/index.php/sbgeo/realizacoes {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110126212638/http://www.sbgeo.org.br/index.php/sbgeo/realizacoes |date=2011-01-26 }} Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia: Prêmios (Accessed March 2011)</ref>
== References == * Book '''Os Fascinantes Caminhos da Paleontologia.''' Author : ''Antônio Isaia.'' Publisher Pallotti. ('''Portuguese''') * Book: "''Cronologia Histórica de Santa Maria e do extinto município de São Martinho.''" 1787-1933. Vol I. Author: ''Romeu Beltrão'', Publisher ''Pallotti'', 1958. ('''Portuguese''')
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==External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080330161238/http://cienciahoje.uol.com.br/4161''Llewellyn Ivor Price-Science today''] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928122314/http://ich.unito.com.br/controlPanel/materia/view/4161 biography in Portuguese]
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