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D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

1860 - 1948

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Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE (2 May 1860 – 21 June 1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar. He was a pioneer of mathematical and theoretical biology, travelled on expeditions to the Bering Strait and held the position of Professor of Natural History at University College, Dundee for 32 years, then at St Andrews for 31 years. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, was knighted, and received the Darwin Medal and the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal. Thompson is remembered as the author of the 1917 book On Growth and Form, which led the way for the scientific explanation of morphogenesis, the process by which patterns and body structures are formed in plants and animals. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson is the 855th most popular biologist (down from 846th in 2019), the 3,854th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,113th in 2019) and the 127th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ranks 855 out of 1,097. Before him are John Kunkel Small, Carl Fredrik Fallén, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Arthur Gardiner Butler, and Nikolay Drozdov. After him are Everard Home, William Sherard, Lucas Alamán, George Ord, Jules Verreaux, and Paul R. Ehrlich.

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Among people born in 1860, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ranks 114. Before him are Themistoklis Sofoulis, John Scott Haldane, Horacio Vásquez, Jacques Sautereau, Joseph Cook, and Pieter Jelles Troelstra. After him are Martin Kukučín, Nikolai Ottovich von Essen, Alexey Favorsky, Jan Kasprowicz, Chandramukhi Basu, and Frank Morley. Among people deceased in 1948, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ranks 156. Before him are Gustav Schuft, Constantin Angelescu, Manuel Arce y Ochotorena, Zhu Ziqing, Mickey Marcus, and Dale Fuller. After him are Harry Brearley, Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller, Pencho Zlatev, Georg Kulenkampff, Charles A. Beard, and Carl Hårleman.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ranks 3,855 out of 8,785. Before him are Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey (1880), Dick Gibson (1918), William Dobson (1610), Gary Numan (1958), Arthur Gardiner Butler (1844), and Clint Mansell (1963). After him are Peter Withe (1951), Alicia Moreau de Justo (1885), Frederick Catherwood (1799), Kenneth MacMillan (1929), Ken Stott (1954), and Christina Pickles (1935).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ranks 127. Before him are Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800), John Gerard (1545), Osbert Salvin (1835), William Kirby (1759), John Hutton Balfour (1808), and Arthur Gardiner Butler (1844). After him are Everard Home (1756), William Sherard (1659), Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809), Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (1800), Reginald Punnett (1875), and Charles Wyville Thomson (1830).

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