William Thompson
#73,015
Most Influential Person Across History
Naturalist from Ireland, born 1805
William Thompson 's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings
Download Badge
Literature
Why Is William Thompson Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Thompson was an Irish naturalist celebrated for his founding studies of the natural history of Ireland, especially in ornithology and marine biology. Thompson published numerous notes on the distribution, breeding, eggs, habitat, song, plumage, behaviour, nesting and food of birds. These formed the basis of his four-volume The Natural History of Ireland, and were much used by contemporary and later authors such as Francis Orpen Morris.
