Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
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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.
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Mendenhall in 1890
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, the first physics teacher in Tokyo, Japan with his interpreter Kikuchi (right) and grad students c. 1880
Mendenhall Gravimeter Pendulums
This Geodetic Survey House in Sitka, Alaska was used by Dr. Mendenhall and Surveyors working to map Alaska.
Hermann von Helmholtz and his wife (seated), Hugo Kronecker (left), Henry Villard(center) and Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (right) - taken at the studio of Mathew Brady in New York City, 1893
Mendenhall's grave (third from left) at Forest Hill Cemetery
Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, AlaskaAwards 3
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Alfred HettnerAlso won Cullum Geographical Medal
G. Evelyn HutchinsonAlso won Franklin Medal
Raphael MechoulamAlso won honorary doctor of the Ohio State University
Eugenie ScottAlso won honorary doctor of the Ohio State University
William David CoolidgeAlso won Franklin Medal
John MurrayAlso won Cullum Geographical MedalAbout this person
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.
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