Keith Stewart Thomson | |
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| Born | September 27, 1938 Derbyshire, United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | University 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.
- ^ Keith S. Thomson – Bio
- ^ Keith Stewart Thomson, Executive Officer, American Philosophical Society
- ^ "American Scientist Online".
- ^ "DIRECTORSHIP OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY". Oxford University Gazette. 15 January 1998.
- ^ "Getting Its Man: Science Academy at Last has a New President". Philadelphia Inquirer. January 21, 1987. pp. D01.