Josiah Whitney

Josiah Whitney
Josiah Whitney
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Josiah Dwight Whitney (1863)
Nacimiento 23 de noviembre de 1819
Northampton, Bandera de los Estados Unidos Estados Unidos
Fallecimiento 15 de agosto de 1896
New Hampshire
Instituciones Universidad de Harvard

Josiah Dwight Whitney (23 de noviembre de 1819, Northampton, Massachusetts - 15 de agosto de 1896, el lago Sunapee, New Hampshire) fue un geólogo y profesor de geología en la Universidad de Harvard. Él era el jefe del Servicio Geológico de California (1860-1874).

Trabajos publicados

  • Con John Wells Foster, Report on the Geology of the Lake superior Land District (1851–52)
  • The Mineral Wealth of the United States (1854)
  • Con James Hall, Geological Report on Ohio (1858)
  • A Report on the Upper Mississippi Land Region (1862)
  • The Geological Survey of California (1864–70)
  • The Yosemite Book (1869). Later reprinted without photographs as The Yosemite Guide-Book
  • Auriferous Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California (1880)
  • Climatic Changes of Late Geological Times (1882)

Bibliografía

  • Brewster, Edwin Tenney. (1909) Life and Letters of Josiah Dwight Whitney.
  • Bourgoin, Suzanne Michele ed. (1998) "Josiah Dwight Whitney", Encyclopedia of World Biography.
  • Farquhar, Francis P. (1965) History of the Sierra Nevada.
  • Johnson, Allen and Dumas Malone, ed. (1946) "Whitney, Josiah Dwight", Dictionary of American Biography (Volume X).
  • Merrill, George P. (1924) The First One Hundred Years of American Geology.
  • True, Frederick W. ed. (1913) "Josiah Dwight Whitney", A History of the First Half-Century of the National Academy of Sciences: 1863–1913.

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