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DENISON OLMSTED (1791-1859)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 90 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DENISON
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OLMSTED (1791-1859)  ,
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American
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man of
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science, was
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born at
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East
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Hartford,
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Connecticut, U.S.A., on the 18th of
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June 1791, and in 1813 graduated at Yale, where he acted as
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college
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tutor from 1815 to 1817 . In the latter
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year he was appointed to the
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chair of
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chemistry,
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mineralogy and
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geology in the university of
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North Carolina . This chair he exchanged for that of
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mathematics and physics at Yale in 1825; in 1836, when this professorship was divided, he retained that of
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astronomy and natural
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philosophy . He died at New Haven, Connecticut, on the 13th of May 1859 . His first publication (1824-1825) was the
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Report of his
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geological survey of the
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state of North Carolina . It was followed by various
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text-books on natural philosophy and astronomy, but he is chiefly known to the scientific
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world for his observations on
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hail (1830), on meteors and on the
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aurora borealis (see Smithsonian Contributions, vol. viii.) .

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