Sir Richard Owen
ahli biologi asal Britania Raya (1804–1892)
Sir Richard Owen FRS KCB (20 Juli 1804 – 18 Desember 1892) adalah seorang biologis, anatomis komparatif dan paleontologis. Disamping seorang figur kontroversial, Owen umumnya dikenal sebagai naturalis menarik dengan hadiah luar biasanya karena menginterpretasikan fosil-fosil.
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| Lahir | 20 Juli 1804 Lancaster, Inggris |
| Meninggal | 18 Desember 1892 (umur 88) Richmond Park, London, Inggris |
| Kebangsaan | Britania Raya |
| Almamater | Universitas Edinburgh Rumah Sakit St Bartolomeus |
| Dikenal atas | Museum Sejarah Alam Britania |
| Penghargaan | Wollaston Medal (1838) Royal Medal (1846) Copley Medal (1851) Clarke Medal (1878) Linnean Medal (1888) |
| Karier ilmiah | |
| Bidang | Anatomi komparatif Paleontologi Zoologi[1] Biology[1] |
Biografi
Owen lahir di Lancaster pada 1804, sebagai salah satu dari enam bersaudara dari seorang padagang Hindia Barat yang bernama Richard Owen (1754–1809). Ibunya, Catherine Parrin, merupakan keturunan dari Huguenot dan ia dididik di Lancaster Royal Grammar School.
Daftar pustaka
- Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus (1832)
- Odontography (1840–1845)
- On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton (1848)
- History of British Fossil Reptiles (4 vols., 1849–1884)
- On the Nature of Limbs (1849)
- Palæontology or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and Their Geological Relations (1860)
- Archaeopteryx (1863)
- Anatomy of Vertebrates (1866) Image from
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- Volume I, Fishes and Reptiles
- Volume II, Birds and Mammals
- Volume III, Mammals
- Monograph of the Fossil Mammalia of the Mesozoic Formations (1871)
- Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia of South Africa (1876)
- Antiquity of Man as deduced from the Discovery of a Human Skeleton during Excavations of the Docks at Tilbury (1884)
Referensi
Bacaan tambahan
- Anonymous (1873). Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day. Illustrated by Frederick Waddy. London: Tinsley Brothers. hlm. 36–37. Diakses tanggal 2011-01-06.
- Amundson, Ron, (2007), The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo-Devo. New York: Cambridge University of Press.
- Bryson, Bill (2003). A Short History of Nearly Everything. London: Doubleday. ISBN 0-7679-0817-1.
- Cadbury, Deborah (2000). Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-7087-7.
- Collette, Joseph H., Gass, Kenneth C. & Hagadorn, James W. (2012). "Protichnites eremita unshelled? Experimental model-based neoichnology and new evidence for a euthycarcinoid affinity for this ichnospecies". Journal of Paleontology. 86 (3): 442–454. doi:10.1666/11-056.1.
- Collette, Joseph H. & Hagadorn, James W. (2010). "Three-dimensionally preserved arthropods from Cambrian Lagerstatten of Quebec and Wisconsin". Journal of Paleontology. 84 (4): 646–667. doi:10.1666/09-075.1.
- Cosans, Christopher, (2009), Owen's Ape & Darwin's Bulldog: Beyond Darwinism and Creationism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- Desmond, Adrian & Moore, James (1991). Darwin. London: Michael Joseph, the Penguin Group. ISBN 0-7181-3430-3.
- Darwin, Francis, editor (1887). The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter (7th Edition). London: John Murray.
- Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C., editors (1903). More letters of Charles Darwin: A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray.
- Huxley, Thomas H., (1861), "On the Zoological Relations of Man with the Lower Animals", Natural History Review 1: 67–84.
- Owen, Richard (1852). "Description of the impressions and footprints of the Protichnites from the Potsdam sandstone of Canada". Geological Society of London Quarterly Journal. 8: 214–225. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1852.008.01-02.26.
- Owen, Richard (published anonymously) (April 1860). "Darwin on the Origin of Species". Edinburgh Review. 111: 487–532. Diakses tanggal 2010-07-26.
- Owen, Richard (January 2007) [1849]. Amundson, Ron, ed. On the Nature of Limbs: A Discourse, with a preface by Brian Hall, and essays by Ron Amundson, Kevin Padian, Mary Winsor, and Jennifer Coggon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-64194-2. LCCN 2007009519.
- Owen, Richard (Owen's grandson) (1894). The Life of Richard Owen. 1. London: J. Murray. ISBN 0-8478-1188-3. LCCN 03026819.
- Owen, Richard (Owen's grandson) (1894). The Life of Richard Owen. 2. London: J. Murray. ISBN 0-8478-1188-3. LCCN 03026819.
- Richards, Evellen, (1987), "A Question of Property Rights: Richard Owen's Evolutionism Reassessed", British Journal of the History of Science, 20: 129–171.
- Rupke, Nicolaas, (1994), Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Shindler, Karolyn. Richard Owen: the greatest scientist you've never heard of, The Telegraph, 16 December 2010. (accessed 16 December 2010)
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