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'''Paul Francis Lawson''' (born 9 Aug 1918, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide Adelaide]) was the museum taxidermist that was commissioned to make the plaster cast bust of the [[Somerton Man]]. | '''Paul Francis Lawson''' (born 9 Aug 1918, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide Adelaide]) was the museum taxidermist that was commissioned to make the plaster cast bust of the [[Somerton Man]]. | ||
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Paul Francis Lawson (born 9 Aug 1918, Adelaide) was the museum taxidermist that was commissioned to make the plaster cast bust of the Somerton Man.
Early years
Lawson was raised in Prospect, South Australia and educated at Thebarton Technical School. He then completed a short stint at the South Australian Government Trade School, at Kintore Avenue, in Adelaide.
Career
He joined the South Australian Museum as an assistant taxidermist in 1936. During the war years he was called up to the HQ of the 6th Calvary Unit, 11 January 1940 to 31 December 1947. During 1953-54, Ruben Arthur "Stirt" Sirton of UC Berkeley visited the SA Museum and Lawson accompanied him in the search of tertiary fossils at Lake Callabonna leading to the discovery of primitive members of several marsupial families. Stiron invited Lawson back to Berkeley, and during 1955-56 Lawson performed paleontological laboratory work under Stirton as a Visiting Specialist. Lawson rose to Senior Preparator and retired from the SA Museum in 1979.
