W. P. D. Wightman

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Dr '''William Persehouse Delisle Wightman''' [[FRSE]] (1899–1983) was a 20th-century British philosophical author. He was President of the British Society for the History of Science.

==Life==
He was born on 4 June 1899 in [[Streatham Hill]] in [[London]], the son of Charles Wightman, a [[Birmingham]] merchant, and his wife, Ellen Lodge. He was educated at [[Eastbourne College]] in [[Sussex]]. He then studied Sciences (specialising in Chemistry) at the [[University of London]] from 1916, graduating BSc in 1922.<ref>http://bit.ly/2IGswWg>

In 1923 he began as Science Master at [[Edinburgh Academy]]. He gained an MSc in 1927 and PhD in 1932.

In 1934 he was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]]. His proposers were Sir [[Edmund Taylor Whittaker]], [[Arthur Crichton Mitchell]], Sir [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]], and [[James Pickering Kendall]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>

In 1951 he left Edinburgh Academy to begin lecturing on History and the Philosophy of Science at [[Aberdeen University]].<ref>http://bit.ly/2IUVd11>

He retired in 1968 and moved to [[Yarnton]] near [[Oxford]]. He died on 15 January 1983.

==Family==

In 1924 he married Mildred Connold who predeceased him.

==Publications==
*''A Modern Introduction to Science'' (1936)
*''Science in Scotland'' (1947)
*''The Growth of Scientific Ideas'' (1951)
*''The Emergence of General Physiology'' (1956)
*''Science in the Renaissance'' (2 vols) (1962)
*''The Emergence of Scientific Medicine'' (1971)
*''Science in a Renaissance Society'' (1972)
*''The History of Ancient Physics''
*''The History of Astronomy''
*''Essays on Philosophical Subjects''
*''Science and Monism''
*''Science of Scotland: The Work of the Scottish Research Institutions''

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