| Authorised form of name | Thunberg; Carl Peter (1743 - 1828) |
| Other forms of name | Carolus Petrus |
| Dates | 1743 - 1828 |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Place of birth | Jonkoping, Sweden |
| Date of birth | 11 November 1743 |
| Place of death | At his country house Tunaberg, Uppsala, Sweden |
| Date of death | 08 August 1828 |
| Research field | Natural history |
| Activity | Education:
Lic Med (Uppsala 1770); MD (1772)
Career:
Served in the Dutch East India Company and travelled to Cape of Good Hope, Java and Japan; Professor, Leyden; Professor, Stockholm; Professor, Uppsala (1779); Professor of Medicine and Botany; President of the Swedish Academy of Science
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/04/1788 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll |
| Royal Society code | NA1287 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| MM/3/101 | Letter from Carl Peter Thunberg, Upsalla, to Charles Peter Layard | 22 November 1790 |
| L&P/7/107 | Paper, 'Sitodium incisum and S. nacrocarpon [Sitodium incision and macrocarpon, and the use of Fruits to be produced]' by Carl Peter Thunberg | 1779 |
| EC/1787/33 | Thunberg, Carl Peter: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| L&P/13/17 | Paper, 'Portion of a narrative of travel in Japan' by Carl Peter Thunberg | c.1780 |
| L&P/7/139 | Paper, 'Resa til Japan [Travels to Japan]' by Carl Peter Thunberg | 1780 |