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Arthur Tansley

1871 to 1955 3 documented presences 3 places

Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Arthur Tansley across 3 places, from 1893 to 1927. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Sir Arthur George Tansley FLS, FRS (15 August 1871 – 25 November 1955) was an English botanist and a pioneer in the science of ecology.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Arthur Tansley was documented, and when

1893 to 1907period
University College Londonattested “Tansley taught and conducted research at University College London from 1893 until 1907.” source: Wikipedia: Arthur Tansley
1922year
Viennaattested “In 1922 Tansley spent three months with Freud, and the following year he moved his family to Vienna for a year.” source: Wikipedia: Arthur Tansley
1927 to 1937period
University of Oxfordattested “After four years away from a formal academic position in botany, Tansley was appointed Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford in 1927, where he remained until his retirement in 1937.” source: Wikipedia: Arthur Tansley

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Places Arthur Tansley is documented in

University College London1 presence · 1893University of Oxford1 presence · 1927Vienna1 presence · 1922

Other places tied to Arthur Tansley in the record

In each of these, a source puts Arthur Tansley and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Arthur Tansley was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

1889year
University College Londonmentioned “Unhappy with the science teaching, which he considered "farcically inadequate", he switched to University College London in 1889 and studied at the faculty of Biological science, where he was heavily influenced by Ray Lankester and F.” source: Wikipedia: Arthur Tansley
1894year
Cambridgementioned “In 1894 he returned to Cambridge and completed Part II of Tripos, and received a degree with first class honours.” source: Wikipedia: Arthur Tansley
1907year
University of Cambridgementioned “In 1907 he took a Lecturer position at the University of Cambridge.” source: Wikipedia: Arthur Tansley
1923year
Viennamentioned “In 1923 he resigned his position at Cambridge and spent a year in Vienna studying psychology under Sigmund Freud.” source: Wikipedia: Arthur Tansley
1923year
Cambridgementioned “In 1923 he resigned his position at Cambridge and spent a year in Vienna studying psychology under Sigmund Freud.” source: Wikipedia: Arthur Tansley

Documented at the same place, the same year

Joseph ListerKing's College Hospital · 1893Dorothy L. SayersKing's College Hospital · 1893Konrad LorenzVienna · 1922Roman JakobsonVienna · 1922Peter BehrensVienna · 1922Arthur KoestlerVienna · 1922Karl BühlerVienna · 1922Clemens KraussVienna · 1922

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