What is Martin Brasier?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Martin David Brasier | image = | image_size = 180px | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1947|04|12}} | birth_place = [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]], [[London]], [[England]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2014|12|16|1947|04|12}} | death_place = [[Burford]], [[Oxfordshire]], [[England]] | death_cause = Car accident | nationality = [[United Kingdom]] | field = [[Palaeontology]], [[Evolutionary Biology]], [[Micropaleontology]], [[Astrobiology]] | workplaces = [[British Geological Survey]]<br>[[University of Reading]]<br>[[University of Hull]]<br>[[Memorial University of Newfoundland]]<br>[[University of Oxford]] | alma_mater = [[University of London]]<br>[[University of Oxford]] }} '''Martin David Brasier''' [[Fellow of the Geological Society|FGS]], [[Fellow of the Linnean Society|FLS]] (12 April 1947 – 16 December 2014) was an [[English people|English]] [[palaeobiologist]] and [[astrobiologist]]. He was Professor of Palaeobiology at the [[University of Oxford]]<ref>{{cite web | author= | title=Oxford University staff | url=http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/academic/martinb | accessdate=2011-03-02 | archive-date=2011-06-03 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603101944/http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/academic/martinb | url-status=dead }}</ref> and Emeritus Fellow of [[St Edmund Hall]]. Brasier died in a car accident near [[Burford]], Oxfordshire, UK, on 16 December 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/news_events/news/department_news/professor_martin_brasier,_rip|title=Professor Martin Brasier, RIP|author=Gideon Henderson|date=17 December 2014|publisher=Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford|accessdate=17 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/news/death-martin-brasier|title=Death of Martin Brasier|author=|date=17 December 2014|publisher=St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford|accessdate=18 December 201