Henry Fairfield Osborn
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican geologist and eugenicist (1857-1935)
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Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. was an American paleontologist, geologist and eugenics advocate. He was professor of anatomy at Columbia University, president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years and a cofounder of the American Eugenics Society.
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Osborn in 1890
Osborn (r.) and Barnum Brown at Como-Bluff during the American Museum of Natural History expedition of 1897 with limb bone of Diplodocus specimen AMNH 223
Osborn (third from the right) with other officers of the paleontology section of the St Louis Congress
His country home, Castle Rock in Garrison, New York, 2009.
Osborn and his wife LucretiaAwards 8
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About this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1857 to 1935 · aged 78
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