Thomas Dwight

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For the Congressman from Boston from 1803 to 1805, see Thomas Dwight (politician).

Thomas Dwight (1843 – 1911) was an anatomist and teacher. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Dwight became a Catholic in 1856, and graduated from the Harvard Medical School, 1867; after studying abroad, he was instructor in comparative anatomy at Harvard, 1872-1873, he also lectured at Bowdoin, and succeeded Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. as Parkman professor of anatomy at Harvard Medical School, 1883. In the Warren Museum of Anatomy at Harvard Dwight arranged a section of osteology, considered one of the best in existence, and he had an international reputation as an anatomist. Among his writings are: "Frozen Sections of a Child" (1872); "Clinical Atlas of Variations of the Bones of the Hands and Feet" (1907); "Thoughts of a Catholic Anatomist" (1911), a valuable work of Christian apologetics. Dwight was a critic of Darwinism, stating that the uneducated believed it. He died in Nahant, Massachusetts, at age 68.

This article incorporates text from the 1910 New Catholic Dictionary.