biography
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| (1878–1950)
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| biography:
| Geographer, born in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He studied at Ferris Institute, Big Rapids, MI and then at Ypsilanti's Normal College under the tutelage of Mark Jefferson. The latter sent him to Harvard to study for a doctorate with W M Davis. Bowman took up an academic post at Yale University (1905), became the Directorate of the American Geographical Society (1915), and assumed the presidency of Johns Hopkins University (1935). In 1918–19 he directed the ‘Inquiry’, then became chief of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at the Paris Peace Conference, and during World War 2 was influential with the State Department. His notable works include Forest Physiography (1911), The Andes of Southern Peru (1916), The New World (1921), and Geography in Relation to the Social Sciences (1934). |
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