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Name: D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Birth Date: 1860
Death Date: 1948
Nationality: Scottish
Gender: Male
Occupations: zoologist

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Biography of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
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Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson combined extensive knowledge of natural history with insight into mathematics to develop a new approach to evolution and the growth of living things. His 1917 work, On Growth and Form, represented a significant departure fro...


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1860-1948 Scottish Zoologist In his studies of natural history, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson combined on the one hand a penchant for the application of mathematics, and on the other hand an enthusiastic interest in the classics. His most...
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Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (May 2, 1860–June 21, 1948) was a biologist, mathematician, classics scholar and the author of the 1917 book, On Growth and Form, an influential work of striking originality. Nobel laureate Peter Medawar called On...


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Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society
The Wentworths: Father and Son.
12/01/1998: 1,522 words, approx. 5 pages
John Ritchie, The Wentworths: Father and Son, Carlton South, The Miegunyah Press for Melbourne University Press, 1997; ISBN 05228475X; xiv + 311 pp; RRP $39.95, hardback with index. As a colony and as a state, New South Wales has a long history...
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The Boston Globe
Wentworth: High On Technology
04/20/1987: 1,030 words, approx. 3 pages
Wentworth Institute of Technology began 75 years ago as a pipeline to a job. A farmboy from Dover, N.H., who couldn't get a job as a mechanic in Boston made it his business to see that others could get the training that was not...
 


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