Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE was a Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar. He was a pioneer of mathematical and theoretical biology, travelled on expeditions to the Bering Strait and held the position of Professor of Natural History at University College, Dundee for 32 years, then at St Andrews for 31 years. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, was knighted, and received the Darwin Medal and the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal.
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson at Trinity College, Cambridge, ca. 1883
Thompson was inspired by the work of Albrecht Dürer.
Thompson between 1895 and 1905
The University of Dundee is a public research university based in Dundee, Scotland. It was founded as a university college in 1881 with a donation from the prominent Baxter family of textile manufacturers. The institution was, for most of its early existence, a constituent college of the University of St Andrews alongside United College and St Mary's College located in the town of St Andrews itself. Following significant expansion, the University of Dundee gained independent university status by royal charter in 1967 while retaining elements of its ancient heritage and governance structure.
Ellenbank: the former Students' Union, now the School of Business is one of the longest-used buildings of the university.
The Harris Building on the Geddes Quadrangle
The Old Medical School, an example of expansion into the professions and purpose-built university structures from the turn of the century
The Old Medical School and the Carnelley Building on City Campus.