Thompson, D'Arcy

D'Arcy Thompson
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Name	Thompson, D'Arcy Gender: M
Birthname	D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
born on	2 May 1860 at 21:45 (= 9:45 PM )
Place	Edinburgh, Scotland, 55n57, 3w13
Timezone	GMT h0e (is standard time)
Data source	Quoted BC/BR Rodden Rating AA Collector: Wright
Astrology data	12°40' 10°17 Asc. 02°17'

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Biography

Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar. He was a pioneer of mathematical 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. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, was knighted, and received the Darwin Medal and the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal.

Thompson is remembered as the author of the 1917 book On Growth and Form, which led the way for the scientific explanation of morphogenesis, the process by which patterns and body structures are formed in plants and animals.

Thompson's description of the mathematical beauty of nature and the mathematical basis of the forms of animals stimulated thinkers as diverse as Julian Huxley, C. H. Waddington, Alan Turing, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Eduardo Paolozzi, Le Corbusier, Christopher Alexander and Mies van der Rohe.

He died 21 June 1948.

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Source Notes

Paul Wright from B.C.

Categories

• Vocation : Science : Biology

• Vocation : Science : Mathematics/ Statistics