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Owen, Richard, 1804-1892

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Personal name headingOwen, Richard, 1804-1892
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Associated countryGreat Britain England
Birth date1804-07-20
Death date1892-12-18
Place of birthLancaster (England)
Place of deathLondon (England)
Field of activityPaleontology Anatomy, Comparative
AffiliationBritish Museum (Natural History)
Geological Society of London
Royal Institution of Great Britain
Royal Society (Great Britain)
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Profession or occupationBiologists Anatomists Paleontologists Surgeons
Found inHis Sketch of Hunter's scientific character ... 1874.
His Monograph on the aye-aye, 1863: t.p. (Richard Owen)
LC data base, 3-31-86 (hdg.: Owen, Richard, Sir, 1804-1892; usage: Richard Owen)
Transactions of the Geological Society of London. Second series, volume VII. Part 4, 1856: page 233 (Professor Owen, F.R.S., F.G.S.; contribution: Description of the skull of a large species of Dicynodon (D. tigriceps, Ow.), transmitted from South Africa by A. G. Bain, Esq.)
Britannica (online), January 31, 2025 (Richard Owen; British anatomist and paleontologist; also known as Sir Richard Owen; born July 20, 1804, Lancaster, Lancashire, England; died December 18, 1892, London; remembered for his contributions to the study of fossil animals, especially dinosaurs, the first to recognize them as different from today's reptiles; also noted for his strong opposition to the views of Charles Darwin; educated at Lancaster Grammar School and apprenticed in 1820 to a group of Lancaster surgeons; went to Edinburgh in 1824 to continue medical training, transferred to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London in 1825; admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons of England, where he was engaged as curator of the Hunterian Collections (made by anatomist John Hunter), and set up medical practice; in 1830 he met French paleontologist Georges Cuvier and the following year he visited him in Paris, studied specimens in the National Museum of Natural History; elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1834; became Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1836, and its professor of anatomy and physiology in 1837, and Fullerian professor of comparative anatomy and physiology at the Royal Institution; left medical practice and devoted himself to research; appointed superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum in 1856; from then until retirement in 1884 he was largely occupied with development of the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington, London; he was created a knight of the Order of the Bath upon retirement)
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