biography
| name: |
Guyot, Arnold Henry
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pronunciation:
[geeyoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1807–84)
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| biography:
| Geographer, born in Boudevilliers, W Switzerland. He studied at Neuchâtel and in Germany, became professor of geology at Neuchâtel (1839), and studied glaciers in Switzerland with Jean Louis Agassiz. In 1848 he emigrated to the USA, and became professor of physical geography and geology at Princeton (1854), and was in charge of the meteorological department of the Smithsonian Institution. His name is preserved in the geological term guyot, a flat-topped sub-ocean mountain. |
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