Nobu Tamura

Nobumichi Tamura, often shortened to Nobu Tamura, is a French-born Japanese American paleoartist and physicist. He currently lives in California, United States.

Biography Tamura became a physicist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and is an artist specializing in the field of paleoart. 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."