William Benjamin Carpenter

See also: Carpenter

William Benjamin Carpenter is a British Naturaliste , born the October 29th 1813 with Exeter and dead the November 19th 1885 with London.

It makes studies of Médecine to the Université of London of 1833 with 1835 then with that of Edinburgh of 1835 with 1839 where it obtains its title of doctor. He becomes professor of physiology to the Royal Institution of London in 1844 then sign the Legal medicine of 1856 with 1879.

To the sides of Sir Charles Wyville Thomson (1830-1882), Carpenter leads the mission of exploration out of deep water in the north of the Ireland of 1868 to 1870. It is named Doctor in right on a purely honorary basis by the university of Edinburgh in 1871.

Carpenter is member various learned societies whose Royal Society starting from 1844 and receives many honors of which the Médaille Lyell in 1883.

He is the author of many work in Zoologie and Botanique. He emits a theory on the flow of the marine currents.

List partial of the publications

  • 1839 : Principles off general and comparative physiology (J. Churchill, London, republished with many recoveries).
  • 1843 : Popular cyclopædia off natural science (three volumes, London).
  • 1846 : off has Manual Physiology, including physiological anatomy, etc (John Churchill, London, republished with many recoveries).
  • 1847 : Vegetable physiology and botany; including the structure and organs off seedlings, to their characters, USA, geographical distribution and classification, according to the Natural System (Wm. S. Orr and Co., London).
  • 1848 : Animal physiology (Wm. S. Orr and Co., London).
  • 1850 : One the Uses and Abuse Alcoholic Liquors off, in health and disease. Prize essay (John Churchill, London).
  • 1851 : One the Intimate Structure off the Shells off the Brachiopoda left included in the work Thomas Davidson (1817-1885) British Fossil Brachiopoda ).
  • 1856 : The Microscope and Its Revelations (John Churchill, London, republished with many recoveries).
  • 1857 : Mechanical Philosophy, Horology, and Astronomy (London).
  • 1862 : with Thomas Rupert Jones (1819-1911) and William Kitchen Parker (1823-1890), Introduction to the study off the Foraminifera (London).
  • 1873 : with C.W. Thomson and John Gwyn Jeffreys (1809-1885), The Depths off the Sea. General year account off the results off the dredging cruises off H.M.SS. “Porcupine” and “Lightning” during the Summers off 1868,1869, and 1870 (London).
  • 1874 : Principles off Mental Physiology, with to their applications to the training and discipline off the mind, and the study off its morbid conditions (H.S. King & Co, London, republished with many recoveries).

Source

  • Allen G. Debus (to dir.) (1968). World Who' S Who in Science. In Biographical Dictionary off Notable Scientists from Present Antiquity to the. Marquis-Who' S Who (Chicago): xvi + 1855 p.

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