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Sir Richard Owen (July 20, 1804 – December 18, 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist, and paleontologist. Owen is renowned as the person who coined the term dinosaur , but he had numerous scientific accomplishments, particularly in the area of vertebrate anatomy and paleontology, where he was the preeminent authority following ...
Richard Owen ( Lancaster, 20 de julho de 1804 — Londres, 18 de dezembro de 1892) foi um biólogo, anatomista comparativo e paleontólogo britânico. É considerado, depois de Charles Darwin, o segundo mais significativo naturalista da era vitoriana. [ 2] Introduziu na Inglaterra a anatomia transcendental desenvolvida na França e Alemanha.
In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen. Mentioned in the same breath as Isaac Newton and championed as Britain’s answer to France’s Georges Cuvier and Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt, Owen was, as the Times declared in 1856, the most “distinguished man of science in the country.” But, a century and a half later, Owen remains largely ...
Sir Richard Owen KCB ( Lancaster, 20 July 1804–18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist . Owen is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria (meaning 'Terrible Reptile '), and for his outspoken opposition to Charles Darwin 's theory of evolution by natural selection .
Owen was arguably the most influential biologist in Great Britain in Darwin's time. Darwin wanted his approbati … No single author presented Darwin with a more difficult question about his priority in discovering natural selection than the British comparative anatomist and paleontologist Richard Owen.
Maestro Richard Owen, native New Yorker, is an organist, conductor, pianist, singer, harpsichordist and educator. Owen has been music director of various churches in New York, Connecticut and Florida and has enjoyed an international career which has brought him to the foremost venues of Europe, South America and the United States (Carnegie Hall ...
Sep 28, 2002 · Richard Owen was the son of a West India merchant. He studied briefly at Edinburgh (1824), then at a private London anatomy school. Through hard work and serious networking, Owen pushed his way to the heights of Victorian science. In 1827 he was appointed Assistant Curator of the Royal College of Surgeons' Hunterian Collections and then ...
