Denison Olmsted
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Denison Olmsted was an American physicist and astronomer. Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon.
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United StatesCategory
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1791 to 1859 · aged 67
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