# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-corwin-mendenhall
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:26:39.008Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-corwin-mendenhall"
name: "Thomas Corwin Mendenhall"
slug: "thomas-corwin-mendenhall"
description: "Thomas Corwin Mendenhall was an American autodidact physicist and meteorologist. He was the first professor hired at Ohio State University in 1873 and the superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1889 to 1894. Alongside his work, he was also an advocate for the adoption of the metric system by the United States and is the father of author profiling."
tagline: "American physicist and meteorologist (1841-1924)"
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birthDate: "1841-10-04"
deathDate: "1924-03-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump