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Name: Josiah Dwight Whitney
Birth Date: November 23, 1819
Death Date: September 25, 1896
Place of Birth: Northampton, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Death: Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: chemist, geologist

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The American chemist and geologist Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819-1896) was instrumental in placing mining geology on a firm scientific basis. Josiah Dwight Whitney was born in Northampton, Mass., on Nov. 23, 1819, the son of a local banker. After...


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Josiah Dwight Whitney (November 23, 1819 – August 15, 1896) was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University (from 1865), and chief of the California Geological Survey...


 

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