Benjamin Silliman Sr.
Early American chemist and science educator (1779-1864) · United States · Scientists · Died at 85
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Silliman as he appears at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Silliman c. 1860
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Title page, inaugural edition of the American Journal of Science, founded by Benjamin Silliman, 1818
Portrait of Harriett Trumbull from a crayon sketch by her uncle John Trumbull, Yale University Art Gallery
Silliman with his extended family
Photo of the Benjamin Silliman family with portrait of his deceased wife Harriet Trumbull on wallAwards
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Benjamin Silliman was an American chemist and science educator. He was one of the first American professors of science, the first science professor at Yale, and the first person to use the process of fractional distillation in America. He was a founder of the American Journal of Science, the oldest continuously published scientific journal in the United States.
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