biography
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Thomson, Sir C(harles) Wyville
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| male
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| lived:
| (1830–82)
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| biography:
| Marine biologist and oceanographer, born in Linlithgow, West Lothian, EC Scotland, UK. He studied at Edinburgh University, and went on to hold professorships in natural history at Cork, Belfast (1854–68), and Edinburgh, (1870–82). He was famous for his deep-sea researches, described in The Depths of the Oceans (1872), and in 1872 was appointed scientific head of the Challenger round-the-world expedition (1872–6), described in The Voyage of the Challenger (1877). He was knighted in 1876. |
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