Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Mathematics,Natural History,Natural Philosophy

The 'charming and outstanding' Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson believed that all science and learning were one and the same, testified by his wide-ranging expertise as a scientist, naturalist, classicist, mathematician, scholar and philosopher. A year after graduating with a zoology degree from Trinity College, Cambridge, he became a professor of biology in Dundee. He held chair of natural history at the University of St Andrews for an unbeaten record of 64 years, teaching until he was 87 years old with a style described as 'inspirational and eccentric'. As a fellow, and then vice-president of the Royal Society of London, he was awarded the Darwin Medal. He was also an honorary member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, president of both the Classical Association and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, received the Linnean Gold Medal from the Linnean Society and a knighthood, amongst a raft of other notable achievements. Although most famous as the author of 'On Growth and Form' (1917), he wrote over 300 works on many different subjects. As a founder member of the St Andrews Preservation Trust, he was acutely interested in this town's history, and would say: 'The stones cry out to us as we pass and tell us the story of our land'.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Arcy_Wentworth_Thompson

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1948