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1. D'Arcy Thompson (1860 - 1948) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Thompson_DArcy/

   4 May 2024: changed to natural history. ... In 1917 D'Arcy Thompson was appointed to the Chair of Natural History in St Andrews.

2. D'Arcy Thompson by David Burt - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Burt_Thompson/

   7 Mar 2023: In 1917 Professor D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson came to the United College from University College, Dundee, where he had been Professor since 1884, and he held the Chair of Natural History ... At the age of twenty-four he was appointed to the newly-created

3. D'ARCY WENTWORTH THOMPSON (1860 - 1948) - EMS obituary - MacTutor…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/DArcy_Thompson_obituary/

   7 Mar 2023: For over sixty years he occupied a Chair of Natural History in a Scottish University, first at the newly founded University College of Dundee and since 1917 at the United College, ... His approach to the history of the Ancients, and particularly of

4. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Mathematics - D'Arcy Thompson and…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/GowenlockTuminauskaite/chapter-1/

   7 Mar 2023: After his education, he became Professor of Biology at Dundee University in 1884 and later Chair of Natural History at the University of St Andrews in 1917. ... Caricature of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. ms46331/3. Dolphin, Greenland Whale and Finner.

5. DArcy Thompson knighted - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/DArcy_Thompson_knighted/

   7 Mar 2023: Litt., D.Sc., F.R.S., F.R.S.E., Professor of Natural History, University of St Andrews, who has received a Knighthood. ... In 1888 the Chair of Biology became the Chair of Natural History or Zoology, and the Dundee College became part of the University

6. D'Arcy Wentworth Thomson - Scotsman obituary - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/DArcy_Th_Scotsman_obituary/

   7 Mar 2023: Professor Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Professor of Natural History in the University of St Andrews, died at his home in St Andrews yesterday morning at the age of 88 years. ... In 1888 the Chair of Biology became the Chair of Natural History, and when,

7. Science at St Andrews - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Turnbull_science/

   7 Mar 2023: Fifty years later and long after retiral from the Chair of Natural History he was still an active and devoted worker in the Gatty Marine Laboratory. ... Our most distinguished Professor of Natural Philosophy is William Swan, who occupied the Chair

8. Dijksterhuis books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Dijksterhuis_books/

   12 Jul 2023: ii (London, 1941). Professor E J Dijksterhuis, for whom the chair of the History of Mathematics and Natural Sciences was created in the University of Utrecht in 1953, has tried to ... 9. A History of Science and Technology (1963), by R J Forbes and E J