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D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson was born on May 2, 1860. His father, an Irishman, also named D'Arcy Wentworth, was then teaching in the Edinburgh Academy ( where one of his pupils was Robert Louis Stevenson ) , and he later became Professor of Greek at Queen's College, Galway.
On Growth and Form. Paperback – 15 Jun. 2011. by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (Author) 3.9 79 ratings. See all formats and editions. Sir D'Arcy W. Thompson CB FRS FRSE (1860-1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar. A pioneering mathematical biologist, he is mainly remembered as the author of ON GROWTH AND FORM, an ...
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Translated by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. The History of Animals has been divided into the following sections: Book I [85k] Book II [83k] Book III [102k] Book IV [103k]
Wentworth D'Arcy Uhr (31 October 1845 – 18 February 1907) was an officer in the paramilitary Native Police in the British colony of Queensland. After being demoted for poor conduct, he resigned from this force and became a drover , leading the first herds of cattle into the region now known as the Northern Territory .
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D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson was appointed to the first Chair of Biology at University College, Dundee, taking up the appointment in January 1885 and remaining for 32 and a half years. In 1917 he moved to take up the Chair of Natural History at the University of St. Andrews, a post he held until his death 31 years later in June 1948.
Cited by 327. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Edited by John Tyler Bonner. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Online publication date: February 2014. Print publication year: 1992.
