Dr. Henry Wu is a character in the first novel and film, and later returns in the fourth and fifth films, "Jurassic World" and "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom". Dr. Wu is the biotechnologist and chief geneticist in Jurassic Park and head of the team that created the dinosaurs. In the novel, he is a former child prodigy who was personally recruited by Hammond after finishing his doctorate. Although he is the instrumental figure behind the procedures used to bring the dinosaurs to life, he demonstrates little concern for the animals, and is unable to remember exactly what species he has created. He proposes genetically altering the dinosaurs to make them more manageable, noting that many of their early assumptions about the behavior and biology of the animals had been wrong, but did not get Hammond's approval. When he is later presented with the fact that the dinosaurs have been breeding, essentially proving that he had failed to engineer them properly, he mistook it as a "tremendous validation of his work". In the novel, he is killed during the assault on the Visitor Center when a "Velociraptor" jumps onto him from the center's roof and guts him. He is mentioned indirectly in the second novel when Malcolm discovers old InGen documents addressed to Dr. Henry Wu scattered throughout the abandoned manufacturing plant on Isla Sorna.