Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index John Bell Hatcher (October 11, 1861 - July 3, 1904) was an American paleontologist most famous for discovering the triceratops. Born in Cooperstown, Illinois, Hatcher matriculated at Grinnell College in Iowa in the autumn of 1880, then transferred to Yale, where he and his paleontological prowess were discovered by the great paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh, who invited him to a paleontological dig in Nebraska. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.