biography
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Whitney, Josiah Dwight
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| lived:
| (1819–96)
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| biography:
| Geologist, born in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, the brother of William Dwight Whitney. He studied at Yale, and in 1840 joined the New Hampshire survey. In 1855 he was made professor at Iowa University, state geologist of California (1860), and in 1865 professor at Harvard. In 1864 he led an expedition which discovered the highest mountain in the USA (outside of Alaska) - Mt Whitney, in S California. |
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