D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
1860–1948
Zoologist and physiologist. Studied medicine at Edinburgh University and natural sciences at Cambridge University. Worked with Michael Foster and F. M. Balfour. Professor of biology (later natural history), University College, Dundee, 1884. Senior professor of natural history, United College, St Andrews University, 1917. Author of On growth and form (1917). FRS 1916.
Sources
DSB
ODNB
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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