John Bell Hatcher

John Bell Hatcher (1861–1904) was an American paleontologist and renowned fossil-hunter most famous for discovering Torosaurus. Born in Cooperstown, Illinois, Hatcher matriculated at Grinnell College in Iowa in the autumn of 1880, then transferred to Yale University, where he and his paleontological prowess were discovered by the great paleontologist Othniel Marsh, who invited him to a paleontological dig in Nebraska.