biography
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Ward, Robert (De Courcy)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1867–1931)
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| biography:
| Climatologist and geographer, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Associated with Harvard University (1890–1913), he was an American pioneer in climatology, publishing a much-needed student text, Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology (1899). Editor of the American Meteorological Journal (1892–6), he helped found the Immigration Restriction League in 1894. The first professor of climatology in the USA (1910), he published his best-known work, The Climates of the United States, in 1925. |
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