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Keith Stewart Thomson

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Keith Stewart Thomson
Born (1938-09-27) September 27, 1938 (age 86)
Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of Birmingham
Harvard University
Occupation(s)Natural history professor, author

Keith Stewart Thomson (born 1938; B.SC. Birmingham, AM, Ph.D. Harvard) was from 2003 to 2012 a senior research fellow of the American Philosophical Society[1] and is, starting in 2012, the Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society[2] and is an emeritus professor of natural history at the University of Oxford.[3] He was appointed director of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in July 1998.[4] In 1987 he was appointed president of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. He had earlier been a dean at Yale University and director of Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History.[5] He is the author of several books and essays that deal with paleontology, the history of science and evolution.

Bibliography

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  • Thomson, Keith Stewart (1988). Morphogenesis and evolution. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504912-8.[6][7]
  • Thomson, Keith Stewart (1991). Living fossil: the story of the coelacanth. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-30868-5.[8]
  • Thomson, Keith Stewart (1993). The common but less frequent loon and other essays. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-06654-6.[9]
  • Thomson, Keith Stewart (1995). HMS Beagle: the story of Darwin's ship. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-03778-9.[10]
  • Thomson, Keith Stewart (2002). Treasures on Earth: Museums, Collections and Paradoxes. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-21295-6.
  • Thomson, Keith Stewart (2005). Fossils: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280504-1.[11]
  • Thomson, Keith Stewart (2007). Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12600-6.[12][13][14]
  • Thomson, Keith Stewart (2008). The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11704-2.[15]
  • Thomson, Keith Stewart (2009). The Young Charles Darwin. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-13608-1.[16]
  • Thomson, Keith (2012). Jefferson's Shadow. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300187403.[17]

References

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  1. ^ Keith S. Thomson – Bio
  2. ^ Keith Stewart Thomson, Executive Officer, American Philosophical Society
  3. ^ "American Scientist Online".
  4. ^ "DIRECTORSHIP OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY". Oxford University Gazette. 15 January 1998.
  5. ^ "Getting Its Man: Science Academy at Last has a New President". Philadelphia Inquirer. January 21, 1987. pp. D01.
  6. ^ Erwin, Douglas H. (1990). "Variations on a Theme". Paleobiology. 16 (1): 96–101. doi:10.1017/s0094837300009763. JSTOR 2400936.
  7. ^ Hall, Brian K. (1989). "The Shape of Things to Come". Evolution. 43 (7): 1571–1573. doi:10.2307/2409473. JSTOR 2409473.
  8. ^ Musick, J. A. (1993). "Review of Living Fossil. The Story of the Coelacanth". Copeia. 1993 (3): 897–899. doi:10.2307/1447265. JSTOR 1447265.
  9. ^ van Berkum, Fredrica H. (1995). "Review of The Common But Less Frequent Loon and Other Essays by Keith Stewart Thomson". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 70 (1). University of Chicago Press: 63–64. doi:10.1086/418873. ISSN 0033-5770.
  10. ^ Thomson, Keith (May–June 2014). "H.M.S. Beagle, 1820–1870; (reprint of 1975 article)". American Scientist.
  11. ^ Demoncheaux, Eric (Autumn 2007). "Review of Fossils: A Very Short Introduction by Keith Thomson and Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction by David Norman". Science in School (6).
  12. ^ Roberts, Jon H. (2006). "Review of Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature". Journal of the Early Republic. 26 (4): 704–707. doi:10.1353/jer.2006.0076. JSTOR 30043469. S2CID 144143000.
  13. ^ Marshall, Wallace W. (2006). "Review of Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature". Journal of the History of Biology. 39 (2): 407–410. doi:10.1007/s10739-006-0009-1. JSTOR 4332019. S2CID 189843333.
  14. ^ Califano, Joseph J. (2007). "Review of Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature". The Review of Metaphysics. 60 (4): 887–889. JSTOR 20130879.
  15. ^ Anderson, Lyall I. (2009). "Review: Legacy of the Mastodon by K. Thomson". Geol. Mag. 146 (6): 941–942. doi:10.1017/s0016756809006049.
  16. ^ Laporte, Léo F. (January–April 2010). "Review: The Young Charles Darwin by Keith Thomson". Reports of the National Center for Science Education (1–2): 27–28.
  17. ^ Witkin, Joan (2013). "Review of Jefferson's Shadow: The Story of His Science". Journal of the Early Republic. 33 (3): 563–565. doi:10.1353/jer.2013.0046. JSTOR 24487057. S2CID 145214471.


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