Norman I. Platnick

Norman Ira Platnick (December 30, 1951 – April 8, 2020[1]) was an American biological systematist and arachnologist.[2] He was born in Bluefield, West Virginia.

Norman Platnick at the 15th International Congress of Arachnology, Badplaas, South Africa in 2001

He was a Professor Emeritus of the Richard Gilder Graduate School and Peter J. Solomon Family Curator Emeritus of the invertebrate zoology department of the American Museum of Natural History. Platnick described over 1,800 species of spiders from around the world.[3]

Until 2014 he was also the maintainer of the World Spider Catalog, a website which tracks the arachnology literature.

Platnick died on April 8, 2020 at a hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of problems caused from a fall, aged 68.[4]

References
  1. https://twitter.com/WSC_NMBE/status/1247885502780305408
  2. Kumar, Mohi (October 25, 2005). "The exciting adventures of spider man". The New York Times.
  3. Platnick, Norman I.; Raven, Robert J. (2013). "Spider Systematics: Past and Future". Zootaxa. 3683 (5): 595–600. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3683.5.8. PMID 25250473.
  4. Norman Platnick, the ‘Real Spider-Man,’ Is Dead at 68
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