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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 202,730 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson is the 734th most popular biologist, the 3,671st most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 105th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ranks 734 out of 841Before him are Karl Hugo Strunz, Francis Willughby, Richard Thomas Lowe, Johann Christoph Wendland, James Sowerby, and Jakob Emanuel Lange. After him are Hipólito Ruiz López, Thomas Hardwicke, Karl Moritz Schumann, Daniel Oliver, David Goodall, and James Francis Stephens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ranks 112Before him are Jan Kasprowicz, Jacques Sautereau, Jackson Showalter, Ferenc Kemény, Alexey Favorsky, and Pieter Jelles Troelstra. After him are Antônio Parreiras, Robert Bacon, Ferdinand Boberg, Gabriele Possanner, Otto Liebe, and Frederick Rolfe. Among people deceased in 1948, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ranks 142Before him are Bevil Rudd, Mickey Marcus, Gustav Schuft, Manuel Arce y Ochotorena, Pencho Zlatev, and Malcolm Campbell. After him are Charles A. Beard, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Claude McKay, Edgar Kennedy, Frank Benford, and Joseph Wedderburn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ranks 3,671 out of 7,765Before him are Patrick Malahide (1945), Henry Lincoln (1930), James Sowerby (1757), E. T. Whittaker (1873), Emerald Fennell (1985), and Dave Gibbons (1949). After him are Simone Perrotta (1977), Paul Kossoff (1950), Doug Bradley (1954), Reginald Wingate (1861), Imogen Heap (1977), and Ranulph Fiennes (1944).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ranks 105Before him are Mary F. Lyon (1925), Thomas Bell (1792), John Gerard (1545), Francis Willughby (1635), Richard Thomas Lowe (1802), and James Sowerby (1757). After him are Daniel Oliver (1830), David Goodall (1914), James Francis Stephens (1792), George Edwards (1694), G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903), and Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855).