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Sir Richard Owen KCB FRMS FRS (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.
Jul 20, 1998 · Richard Owen (born July 20, 1804, Lancaster, Lancashire, England—died December 18, 1892, London) was a British anatomist and paleontologist who is remembered for his contributions to the study of fossil animals, especially dinosaurs.
Feb 26, 2015 · The palaeontologist, who rose from a poor background in Lancashire to become something close to what we might consider a celebrity scientist today, went on to establish London's Natural History...
British paleontologist who studied many important fossils, including Charles Darwin's South American collection and the Jurassic age Archaeopteryx.
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May 29, 2018 · The English zoologist Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) was one of the greatest comparative anatomists of the 19th century. Richard Owen was born on July 20, 1804, in Lancaster, where he was apprenticed to a local surgeon in 1820.
Sir Richard Owen KCB FRMS FRS (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.
Sir Richard Owen (July 20, 1804 – December 18, 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist, and paleontologist.
Richard Owen (b. 1804–d. 1892), best known for his skills in comparative anatomy, was one of 19th-century Britain’s most celebrated naturalists.
Dec 7, 2010 · He described and named an astonishing number of creatures new to science, and published more than 600 books and papers on subjects as diverse as the duck-billed platypus and the gorilla. It...
Discover how whales were at the heart of Richard Owen's original proposal for a museum of natural history in Britain. The founding of the Natural History Museum in London can be traced back to the ambition of one man: Sir Richard Owen.
