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OLMSTED, DENISON (1791-1859)

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 90 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
OLMSTED, DENISON (1791-1859) , American man of science, was born at
East
 
Hartford
 , Connecticut, U.S.A., on the 18th of June 1791, and in 1813 graduated at Yale, where he acted as college tutor from 1815 to 1817. In the latter year he was appointed to the chair of
chemistry
 ,
mineralogy
  and
geology
  in the university of North Carolina. This chair he exchanged for that of
mathematics
  and physics at Yale in 1825; in 1836, when this professorship was divided, he retained that of astronomy and natural
philosophy
 . He died at New Haven, Connecticut, on the 13th of May 1859.
His first publication (1824-1825) was the Report of his
geological
  survey of the state of North Carolina. It was followed by various text-books on natural
philosophy
  and astronomy, but he is chiefly known to the scientific world for his observations on hail (1830), on meteors and on the
aurora
  borealis (see Smithsonian Contributions, vol. viii.).


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