biography
| name: |
Dana, James D(wight)
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pronunciation:
[dayna]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1813–95)
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| biography:
| Mineralogist and geologist, born in Utica, New York, USA. He studied at Yale, and was a scientific observer on the US exploring expedition under Charles Wilkes (1838–42), visiting the Antarctic and Pacific. With his father-in-law, Benjamin Silliman (1779–1864), he edited the American Journal of Science from 1840, and became professor of natural history (1849–64) and geology (1864–90) at Yale. |
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