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    Sir Charles Wyville Thomson FRSE FRS FLS FGS FZS (5 March 1830 – 10 March 1882) was a Scottish natural historian and marine zoologist. He served as the...
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    Atlantic. The Wyville Thomson Ridge is named after Charles Wyville Thomson who pioneered the first exploration of the area. The Wyville Thomson Ridge, and...
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  • Lt Colonel Frank Wyville Thomson FRSE IMS (1860–27 May 1918) was a 19th/20th century Scottish military surgeon and expert on tropical medicine who advanced...
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    of knowledge include Captain James Cook (1728–1779), Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and Wyville Thomson (1830–1882). These individuals took part in some of...
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    "azoic" deep ocean had only recently been refuted by the work of Sir Charles Wyville Thomson and others.[citation needed] No females were recovered until 1891...
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    HMS Challenger in 1872. A team of scientists on board, led by Charles Wyville Thomson, discovered a large rise in the middle of the Atlantic while investigating...
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    the northern end, the channel is bounded by the Wyville-Thomson Ridge, named after Charles Wyville Thomson, professor of zoology at the University of Edinburgh...
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  • Province of Canada Charles Wyville Thomson (1830–1882), professor of zoology and chief scientist on the Challenger expedition Charles Thomson (cricketer) (born...
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    Carpenter, was placed under the scientific supervision of Sir Charles Wyville Thomson—of the University of Edinburgh and Merchiston Castle School—assisted...
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  • square miles, probably a continuous sheet around the Earth. Sir Charles Wyville Thomson examined some samples in 1869 and regarded them as analogous to...
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    period was the four year journey of HMS Challenger, led by Sir Charles Wyville Thomson, which visited 363 locations. In 1830, Jeanne Villepreux-Power...
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    1872–1876. When the expedition visited the island in October 1873, Sir Charles Wyville Thomson learned of the species and recorded observations made by two German...
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    it is deep red in color. This species was named in honor of Sir Charles Wyville Thomson, chief scientist on the Challenger expedition. It typically has...
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    expedition, led by oceanographer John Murray and chief scientist Charles Wyville Thomson, set sail in 1872 and returned to England in 1876. The ship was...
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  • entomologist. Charles Wyville Thomson (1830–1882), professor of zoology and chief scientist on the Challenger expedition Christine Thomson, professor emerita...
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    seafloor were analyzed by oceanographers Matthew Fontaine Maury and Charles Wyville Thomson and revealed a prominent rise in the seafloor that ran down the...
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    species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Charles Wyville Thomson in 1860. It is known from India, Cambodia, and Myanmar. BioLib...
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    surrounding seabed which mostly lies at 200 m. It was first noted by Charles Wyville Thomson during the mid-nineteenth century. Strategically, the channel forms...
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    noted mainly for his work on scaphopods and turrid gastropods Charles Wyville Thomson (1832–1882), Scottish marine biologist Gunnar Thorson (1906–1971)...
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    Fleming (from Bathgate, a naturalist, zoologist and geologist), Sir Charles Wyville Thomson (from Linlithgow, a natural historian and marine zoologist), and...
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    Fleming (from Bathgate, a naturalist, zoologist and geologist), Sir Charles Wyville Thomson (from Linlithgow, a natural historian and marine zoologist), and...
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    pioneering limnologist, marine biologist and oceanographer who assisted Charles Wyville Thomson on the Challenger expedition; first to note the existence of oceanic...
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    and 1874) and Frank Tourle Thomson (1874 to 1876) Naturalists: Charles Wyville Thomson (1830–1882), Henry Nottidge Moseley (1844–1891) and Rudolf von...
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  • Ocean. It was first described by the Scottish marine zoologist Charles Wyville Thomson (who had been chief scientist on the Challenger Expedition) and...
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  • Étienne-Jules Marey (died 1904), French physiologist. March 5 – Charles Wyville Thomson (died 1882), Scottish marine biologist. April 21 – Clémence Royer...
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    described by Charles Wyville Thomson. Bathycrinus gracilis is found in the North Atlantic at a depth of around 4,456 metres (14,619 ft). Messing, Charles (2015)...
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    Challenger expedition on board the ship HMS Challenger led by Charles Wyville Thomson. This expedition revealed that the deep sea harbours a diverse...
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    management of the MCZ when his work took him abroad. He assisted Charles Wyville Thomson in the examination and classification of the collections of the...
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    world's oceans and conduct appropriate scientific investigation. Charles Wyville Thomson and Sir John Murray launched the Challenger expedition. Challenger...
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    scientists assumed life was sparse in the deep ocean. In the 1870s Sir Charles Wyville Thomson and colleagues aboard the Challenger expedition discovered many...
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