D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

1860 - 1948

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D'Arcy Thompson graduated from Cambridge University in Zoology. He was a appointed Professor of Biology at Dundee and later Professor of Natural History at St Andrews. He combined skills in a way that made him unique. He was a Greek scholar, a naturalist and a mathematician. He was the first biomathematician. He became an honorary member of the EMS in 1933.
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List of References (8 books/articles)

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Additional Material in MacTutor

  1. Walter Ledermann's memoir
  2. An extract from On Growth and Form
  3. D'Arcy Thompson's family
  4. D'Arcy Thompson on Plato and Planets
  5. D'Arcy Thompson on Greek irrationals
  6. D'Arcy Thompson knighted
  7. Obituary: Edinburgh Mathematical Notes
  8. Obituary: The Times
  9. Obituary: Scotsman

Honours awarded to D'Arcy Thompson
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh1885
Fellow of the Royal Society1916
Honorary Fellow of the Edinburgh Maths Society1933

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