Keith Stewart Thomson

Keith Stewart Thomson (born 1938; B.SC. Birmingham, AM, PH.D. Harvard) was from 2003–2012 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.

Bibliography

• Thomson, Keith Stewart (1988). Morphogenesis and evolution. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504912-8.
• Thomson, Keith Stewart (1991). Living fossil: the story of the coelacanth. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-30868-5.
• Thomson, Keith Stewart (1993). The common but less frequent loon and other essays. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-06654-6.
• Thomson, Keith Stewart (1995). HMS Beagle: the story of Darwin's ship. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-03778-9.^[6]
• Thomson, Keith Stewart (2002). Treasures on earth: museums, collections and paradoxes. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-21295-6.
• Thomson, Keith Stewart (2005). Fossils: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280504-1.^[7]
• Thomson, Keith Stewart (2007). Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-12600-X.
• Thomson, Keith Stewart (2008). The legacy of the Mastodon: the golden age of fossils in America. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-11704-3.^[8]
• Thomson, Keith Stewart (2009). The Young Charles Darwin. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-13608-0.^[9]

References

1. Keith S. Thomson – Bio
2. Keith Stewart Thomson, Executive Officer, American Philosophical Society
3. "American Scientist Online".
4. "DIRECTORSHIP OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY". Oxford University Gazette. 15 January 1998.
5. "Getting Its Man: Science Academy at Last has a New President". Philadelphia Inquirer. January 21, 1987. pp. D01.
6. Thomson, Keith (May–June 2014). "H.M.S. Beagle, 1820–1870; (reprint of 1975 article)". American Scientist.
7. Demoncheaux, Eric (Autumn 2007). "Review of Fossils: A Very Short Introduction by Keith Thomson and Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction by David Norman". Science in School (6).
8. Anderson, Lyall I. (2009). "Review: Legacy of the Mastodon by K. Thomson". Geol. Mag. 146 (6): 941–942. doi:10.1017/s0016756809006049.
9. Laporte, Léo F. (January–April 2010). "Review: The Young Charles Darwin by Keith Thomson". National Center for Science Education (1–2): 27–28.