biography
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Storer, Francis Humphreys
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| male
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| lived:
| (1832–1914)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, the son of David Humphreys Storer. After leaving Harvard, he served as a chemist with the US North Pacific expedition (1853–4), and then worked with the Boston Gas Light Co (1858–71) and was affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1865–71). His brother-in-law, Charles William Eliot, president of Harvard, appointed him to Harvard's Bussey Institution, an agricultural school (1869–1907). He did important research on soils, fertilizers, forage crops, and a variety of agricultural and horticultural products. |
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