

Ankylosaur named Crichtonsaurus bohlini, 2002. Association of American Medical Writers Award, 1970 ("Five Patients") Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Technical Achievement Award, 1995 ("for pioneering computerized motion picture budgeting and scheduling") George Foster Peabody Award (for "ER") Writer's Guild of America Award, Best Long Form Television Script of 1995 (for "ER") Emmy, Best Dramatic Series, 1996 (for "ER"). moosh.ptĪwards: Recipient of Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award, 1968 ("A Case of Need", written under pseudonym Jeffery Hudson) and 1980 ("The Great Train Robbery"). Visiting Writer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. 1969 post-doctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, California 1969-1970. Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology at Cambridge University, England, 1965. Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellow, 1964-65. Educated at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, A.B. Born in Chicago, Illinois, October 23, 1942. He is survived by his wife Sherri, his daughter Taylor and his son, John Michael. In 2002, a newly discovered ankylosaur was named for him: Crichtonsaurus bohlini. Crichton's pioneering use of computer programs for film production earned him a Technical Achievement Academy Award in 1995.Ĭrichton won an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Writer's Guild of America Award for ER. His feature film Westworld was the first to employ computer-generated special effects back in 1973. His books have been translated into thirty-eight languages and thirteen have been made into films. One of the most popular writers in the world, he has sold over 200 million books.
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He later worked full time on film and writing. His technical publications included a study of host factors in pituitary chromophobe adenoma, in Metabolism, and an essay on medical obfuscation in the New England Journal of Medicine.Ĭrichton's first bestseller, The Andromeda Strain, was published while he was still a medical student. His multiple-discriminant analysis of Egyptian crania, carried out on an IBM 7090 computer at Harvard, was published in the Papers of the Peabody Museum in 1966.

(His conclusions have been widely misstated.)Ĭrichton's interest in computer modeling went back forty years. He predicted future warming at 0.8 degrees C. Crichton's 2004 bestseller, State of Fear, acknowledged the world was growing warmer, but challenged extreme anthropogenic warming scenarios. He taught courses in anthropology at Cambridge University and writing at MIT. His latest posthumous novel, MICRO, was released on November 22, 2011.Ĭrichton graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, received his MD from Harvard Medical School, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, researching public policy with Jacob Bronowski. Michael Crichton was a writer and filmmaker, best known as the author of Jurassic Park and the creator of ER.
