| Authorised form of name | Thompson; William Robin (1887 - 1972); entomologist |
| Dates | 1887 - 1972 |
| Date of birth | 29 June 1887 |
| Date of death | 30/01/1972 |
| Activity | Education:
MSc (Cornell); DSc (Sorbonne, Paris)
Career:
Superintendent of Farnham House Laboratory of the Imperial Institute of Entomology (London and Farnham Royal)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 11/05/1933 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1973 vol 19 pp 655-678, plate, by W H Thorpe |
| Royal Society code | NA1876 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1933/15 | Thompson, William Robin: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/65/263 | Referee's report by William Robin Thompson, on a paper 'Further experiments on olfactory conditioning in a parasitic insect. The nature of the conditioning process' by William Homan Thorpe | October 1938 |
| RR/63/112 | Referee's report by William Robin Thompson, on a paper 'Olfactory conditioning in a parasitic insect and its relation to the problem of host selection' by William Homan Thorpe and F G W Jones | May 1937 |
| RR/50/40 | Referee's report by William Robin Thompson, on a paper 'Biology and morphology of the immature stages of Mycetophilidae (Diptera, Nematocera)' by S Madwar | January 1936 |
| RR/62/94 | Second referee's report by William Robin Thompson, on a paper 'The influence of moonlight on the activity of certain nocturnal insects, particularly of the family Noctuidae, as indicated by a light trap' by Carrington Bonsor Williams | [March 1936] |
| RR/64/56 | Referee's report by William Robin Thompson, on a paper 'On the responses of the african migratory locust to different types of background' by M Hertz and Augustus Daniel Imms | [February 1937] |
| RR/52/80 | Referee's report by William Robin Thompson, on a paper 'A hormone causing pupation in the blowfly calliphora erythrocephala' by Gottfried Fraenkel | 21 November 1934 |
| RR/62/93 | Referee's report by William Robin Thompson, on a paper 'The influence of moonlight on the activity of certain nocturnal insects, particularly of the family Noctuidae, as indicated by a light trap' by Carrington Bonsor Williams | [February 1936] |