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Sidney Henry Haughton FRS (7 May 1888 – 24 May 1982) was an English-born South African paleontologist and geologist best known for his description of the sauropodomorph dinosaur Melanorosaurus in 1924, and his work on the geology of the Witwatersrand. Haughton was born on 7 May 1888 in Bethnal Green, London. He was the eldest of three children born to Henry Charles Haughton and Alice Aves. During World War I, Haughton enlisted with the Royal Army Medical Corps, was posted to Egypt and then India, and picked up malaria, leading to his discharge from the army.

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  • Sidney Henry Haughton FRS, née le 7 mai 1888 et mort le 24 mai 1982 à Pretoria et enterré à Londres, en Angleterre, est un paléontologue et géologue sud-africain d'origine britannique surtout connu pour sa description du dinosaure Sauropodomorpha Melanorosaurus en 1924 et ses travaux sur la géologie du Witwatersrand. (fr)
  • Sidney Henry Haughton FRS (7 May 1888 – 24 May 1982) was an English-born South African paleontologist and geologist best known for his description of the sauropodomorph dinosaur Melanorosaurus in 1924, and his work on the geology of the Witwatersrand. Haughton was born on 7 May 1888 in Bethnal Green, London. He was the eldest of three children born to Henry Charles Haughton and Alice Aves. During World War I, Haughton enlisted with the Royal Army Medical Corps, was posted to Egypt and then India, and picked up malaria, leading to his discharge from the army. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1961. His candidature citation read: "Honorary Director of Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, Witwatersrand University; formerly Director of the Geological Survey of South Africa and Chief Geologist, South Africa Atomic Energy Board. The outstanding living authority on the geology of South Africa. Distinguished for the value and wide range of contributions to the geology of southern and central Africa especially in the fields of palaeozoology, stratigraphy and economic geology. To the systematic study of Karoo reptiles alone he has devoted 37 papers; other researches contain mollusca, fishes, amphibia and mammalia. Currently is co-ordinating geological studies throughout Africa south of the Sahara. The list of 106 publications is attached." Haughton's work on South African geology culminated in the 1964 publication of Gold Deposits of the Witwatersrand Basin: The Geology of Some Ore Deposits of Southern Africa, Volume 1, a collection of 18 papers on Witwatersrand geology. (en)
  • Sidney Henry Haughton (ur. 7 maja 1888 w Bethnal Green, zm. 24 maja 1982 w Londynie) – brytyjski paleontolog i geolog. (pl)
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  • Sidney Henry Haughton FRS, née le 7 mai 1888 et mort le 24 mai 1982 à Pretoria et enterré à Londres, en Angleterre, est un paléontologue et géologue sud-africain d'origine britannique surtout connu pour sa description du dinosaure Sauropodomorpha Melanorosaurus en 1924 et ses travaux sur la géologie du Witwatersrand. (fr)
  • Sidney Henry Haughton (ur. 7 maja 1888 w Bethnal Green, zm. 24 maja 1982 w Londynie) – brytyjski paleontolog i geolog. (pl)
  • Sidney Henry Haughton FRS (7 May 1888 – 24 May 1982) was an English-born South African paleontologist and geologist best known for his description of the sauropodomorph dinosaur Melanorosaurus in 1924, and his work on the geology of the Witwatersrand. Haughton was born on 7 May 1888 in Bethnal Green, London. He was the eldest of three children born to Henry Charles Haughton and Alice Aves. During World War I, Haughton enlisted with the Royal Army Medical Corps, was posted to Egypt and then India, and picked up malaria, leading to his discharge from the army. (en)
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  • Sidney Henry Haughton (fr)
  • Sidney H. Haughton (nl)
  • Sidney Haughton (pl)
  • Sidney H. Haughton (en)
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