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1. 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,

2. Italian Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Italy/

   7 Mar 2023: Pavia as professor of natural history. ... Pietro Rossi (1738-1804). An entomologist who was professor of logic at Pisa, becoming professor of natural history there in 1801.

3. 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

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. Martin Bartels (1769 - 1836) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: In particular Bartels informed Eberhard August Wilhelm Zimmermann (1743-1815) who had been professor of mathematics, physics and natural history at the Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick since 1766. ... Bartels took up his post at professor of mathematics

6. Mathematics at Aberdeen 4 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Education/Aberdeen_4/

   7 Mar 2023: He taught the Mathematics and Natural History course until 1811, when, exercising his right to change classes, he became Professor of Moral Philosophy. ... the Professor of Natural Philosophy gave the advanced mathematics course of spherics, conics and

7. 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 ... He maintained the Scottish tradition in the teaching of natural

8. John Purser (1835 - 1903) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: 1839, who became a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and Professor of Natural Philosophy in Dublin. ... Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, 1924), 98-99.

9. 125th Anniversary 1 The Edinburgh Mathematical Society was founded ... PDF (2493k)

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/EMS/booklet.pdf

   16 Jun 2020: He became Professor of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow at a very young age. ... He became Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Technical College in Glasgow.

10. Jacob Gool (1596 - 1667) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Golius was also taught by Aelius Everhardus Vorstius (1565-1624) who had become an extraordinary professor of Natural Philosophy at Leiden in 1598, and a full professor of Natural History and ... Van Erpe died in 1624 and Golius was appointed to succeed