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Charles George Maurice de Worms (1903-1979) was born in London and educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge . Most of de Worms' working life was spent as a chemist in the Institute of the Royal Cancer Hospital and Porton Down Experimental Station, producing numerous papers on cancer. He became interested in ornithology but Lepidoptera were his main interest. He published a large number of papers and notes mainly in The Entomologist and Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation . In 1962 he published The Macrolepidoptera of Wiltshire . De Worms was an extensive traveller, collecting Lepidoptera in Europe, North Africa, Australia, the West Indies and Canada. He was a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London and a member of both the London Natural History Society and the British Entomological and Natural History Society .1
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Baron Charles George Maurice de Worms (1903–1979) was an English chemist and lepidopterist .
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English chemist and lepidopterist Baron Charles George Maurice de Worms (19 January 1903 – 10 October 1979) was an English chemist and lepidopterist .
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born in london and educated at eton and king's college
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english chemist and lepidopterist
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