biography
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Carpenter, William Benjamin
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1813–85)
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| biography:
| Biologist, born in Exeter, Devon, SW England, UK, the brother of Mary Carpenter. He studied medicine at Bristol, London, and Edinburgh, and in 1844 was appointed professor of physiology at the Royal Institution, London, and professor of forensic medicine at University College (1849). He took part in a deep sea exploration expedition (1868–71), and did valuable research on the Foraminifera (a type of unicellular animal). |
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