- [Richard Norris Wolfenden (1854-1926) was an English physician and oceanographer.]
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Fuller Name
- Richard Norris
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- Wolfenden, Richard Norris, 1854-1926
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
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Birth Date
- 1854
Death Date
- 1926
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- Affiliation Start: 1903
- Affiliation End: 1910
- Organization: Challenger Society for the Promotion of the Study of Oceanography
Birth Place
- Lancashire (England)
Associated Locale
- England
Associated Locale
- Canada
Associated Language
- English
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Sources
- found: Wolfenden, R. Norris. On infantile cerebral paralysis, 1886:title page (by R. Norris Wolfenden)
- found: Challenger Society for Marine Science website, September 22, 2016:origins (Richard Norris Wolfenden was born in Lancashire in 1854; he trained as a physician at the London Hospital where he was appointed senior house physician after obtaining his Cambridge MD in 1884; he abandoned his medical career in 1892; together with George Herbert Fowler, Wolfenden founded the Challenger Society for Marine Science in 1903; Wolfenden had been extremely active in the Society's early years, publishing not only his Challenger memoir but also the results of his plankton studies. However in 1910 he gave up this work and moved to Canada where he and his second wife bought a fruit farm near relatives in Grimsby, Ontario. He died there in 1926) - http://www.challenger-society.org.uk/
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- 2016-09-23: new
- 2017-01-28: revised
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