Josiah Whitney
Geologist, Academic
1819 – 1896
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Who was Josiah Whitney?
Josiah Dwight Whitney was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University, and chief of the California Geological Survey. Through his travels and studies in the principal mining regions of the United States, Whitney became the foremost authority of his day on the economic geology of the U.S. Mount Whitney, the highest point in the continental United States, and the Whitney Glacier, the first confirmed glacier in the United States, on Mount Shasta, were both named after him by members of the Survey.
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- Born
- Nov 23, 1819
Northampton - Also known as
- J. D. Whitney
- Siblings
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Yale University
- Lived in
- Northampton
- Died
- Aug 15, 1896
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on July 23, 2013
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