Thomson/[Thompson], D’Arcy Wentworth Sir ♂
Education
Professor of Natural History University College, Dundee 1884 - 1917.
Professor of Natural History, St Andrews University 1.10.1917 - 21.6.1948.
Birth/childhood
Born 2.5.1860 son of D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Professsor of Greek, University College, Cork and Fanny Gamgee. [University professor]
Attended Edinburgh Academy.
Career
Studied Edinburgh University and Cambridge University - B.A. 1883. Served on International Commissions.
Professor of Natural History University College, Dundee 1884 - 1917. [University professor]
Professor of Natural History, St Andrews University 1.10.1917 - 21.6.1948.
Knighted 1937. F.R.S. 1916.
Publications including Growth and Form.
Death
Died at St Andrews 21.6.1948.
Sources
- Obit. Notice FRS 6 599-617
- Ruth D’Arcy Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, the scholar naturalist, London, 1958