D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson 1860 - 1948

Remembered as the author of the 1917 book On Growth and Form. Educated at University of Edinburgh but later switched to University of Cambridge. He went on to teach at the University of Dundee and the University of St Andrews. While at Dundee he created a Zoological Museum. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1916, he was knighted in 1937 and was awarded the Darwin Medal in 1946.