Richard Owen: Quick Facts


Facts

Also Known As Sir Richard Owen
Born July 20, 1804 • Lancaster • England
Died December 18, 1892 (aged 88) • London • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1851)
Notable Works “Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus” • “Odontography”
Subjects Of Study dinosaur • fossil

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Mantell, detail of an engraving
Gideon Algernon Mantell
British paleontologist
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William Lonsdale
British geologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Frederick Sanger, 1993
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
British physicist
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Sir Charles Frank
English physicist
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Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Sir Charles Sherrington
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
David Cox
David Cox
British statistician
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
British physiologist
Sir Henry Dale, 1956
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
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Earl Douglass
American paleontologist
Edward Drinker Cope, c. 1889
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist
Marsh, Othniel Charles
Othniel Charles Marsh
American paleontologist
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William Joscelyn Arkell
British paleontologist
The “father of scientific surgery”
John Hunter
British surgeon
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William Hewson
English physiologist