The dinosaur doctor

Abstract

In the early 1990s, a colleague called me and said, "You're in a book about cloning dinosaurs" - Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park (Alfred A. Knopf, 1990). I said, "I hope my character doesn't get eaten." I never bothered to pick it up; I am dyslexic and have trouble enough keeping up with my own science. Then director Steven Spielberg called and asked whether I wanted to work on the film.