Josiah Dwight Whitney
1819–96
American geologist. Professor of chemistry, University of Iowa, 1855–8. California state geologist, 1860–74. Professor of geology, Harvard, 1865; dean of the School of Mining and Practical Geology, 1868.
Source
ANB.
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
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