BIOLOGIST

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

1860 - 1948

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Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE (2 May 1860 – 21 June 1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar. He was a pioneer of mathematical and theoretical biology, travelled on expeditions to the Bering Strait and held the position of Professor of Natural History at University College, Dundee for 32 years, then at St Andrews for 31 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson has received more than 215,223 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson is the 846th most popular biologist (down from 733rd in 2019), the 4,112th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,663rd in 2019) and the 119th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ranks 846 out of 1,097. Before him are Heinrich Moritz Willkomm, Casimir de Candolle, Mary Katharine Brandegee, Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Gustav Lindau, and William John Burchell. After him are Tadas Ivanauskas, Édouard Ménétries, Richard Anthony Salisbury, Robert Ridgway, Anne McLaren, and Daniel Oliver.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ranks 124. Before him are Jan Kasprowicz, Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Gabriele Possanner, Otto Liebe, Ferdinand Boberg, and Frank Morley. After him are John Antoine Nau, Carlos José Solórzano, Antônio Parreiras, Alexey Favorsky, Jacques Sautereau, and Frederick Rolfe. Among people deceased in 1948, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ranks 167. Before him are Edgar Kennedy, Franz Weidenreich, Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey, Vasily Kachalov, Charles A. Beard, and Ladislav Troják. After him are Henri Hazebrouck, Dale Fuller, Arthur Whitten Brown, Malcolm Campbell, Carl Hårleman, and Claude McKay.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ranks 4,112 out of 8,785. Before him are Stephen Graham (1973), Olivia Manning (1908), Nathalie Emmanuel (1989), William John Burchell (1781), Stephen Mangan (1968), and Spencer Davis (1939). After him are Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), Cædmon (657), Estelle Winwood (1883), Mary Sidney (1561), Thomas Brodie-Sangster (1990), and Mary Everest Boole (1832).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ranks 119. Before him are George Edwards (1694), William Hemsley (1843), Herbert Giles (1845), Sydney Parkinson (1745), Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (1800), and William John Burchell (1781). After him are Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761), Anne McLaren (1927), Daniel Oliver (1830), William Kirby (1759), William John Swainson (1789), and Thomas Bell (1792).

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