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