Nobu Tamura

Nobu Tamura studied at Grenoble Institute of Technology. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is physics, optics and illustration. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are paleoart. Residence is recorded at California. Employment is recorded with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Tamura became a physicist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and is an artist specializing in the field of paleoart. Tamura was a student at Grenoble Institute of Technology from 1986-1989 for electrochemistry, and then from 1989 until 1993 for his PhD in Materials Science. He worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory from May 1998 to August 1999, and then moved to LBNL. He has worked there ever since as the project leader for the development of the ALS X-Ray microdiffraction beamline. He is a Senior Scientist in Diffraction and Imaging, and Photon Science Operations. He has published over 300 articles, including in publications such as the Journal of Structural Biology and the Proceedings of SPIE, which focus on research into utilizing microdiffraction of soft x-rays to measure stress, among other things. In addition to his work in the field of optics, he also has an extensive portfolio of paleoart. He has illustrated two books: Dinosaurs of the British Isles and Vertebrate Evolution: From Origins to Dinosaurs and Beyond. In an interview in 2016 he estimated that he's published over 1,500 drawings since 2007, and continues to release new content on his Spinops. According to Tamura, he was inspired to begin making paleoart while browsing through Wikipedia when he noticed that the dinosaur pages did not have any illustrations. He told Inverse in 2016 that he remembers thinking "Maybe I can do something about it." In PBS Eons' video "An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs," he is listed as a prominent figure in the newest age of paleoart.

The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Recorded as human. Recorded with the occupation physicist. It is also recorded that nobu Tamura is recorded with the occupation paleoartist. Institutional cataloguing adds that nobu Tamura is recorded with the occupation scientist. Recorded with the occupation illustrator. Recorded with the gender male. It is also recorded that nobu Tamura was born in France. The same evidence establishes that nobu Tamura is classed in the genre paleoart.