William R. Thompson
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William Robin Thompson was a Canadian entomologist and also wrote on the philosophy of science in his book Science and Common Sense: An Aristotelian Excursion (1937). He specialized in the biological control of agricultural and forest insects and served as the head of a laboratory of the Imperial Institute of Entomology which changed its name from the Imperial Parasite Service to Imperial Bureau of Biological Control and later the Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control.
