Organisation Wikidata ID Q739438 End Date 1948 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource 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'. Title A name given to the resource Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived history Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 155 Type The nature or genre of the resource Organisation Subject The topic of the resource Mathematics,Natural History,Natural Philosophy Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Object The URL of a suitable source image in the best resolution available on the web site of the data provider from which small images could be generated for use in the portal. This will often be the same URL as given in europeana:isShownBy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Arcy_Wentworth_Thompson