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    Charles Richard Van Hise (May 29, 1857 – November 19, 1918) was an American geologist, academic and progressive. He served as president of the University...
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    Leith was born in Trempealeau (village), Wisconsin. He was hired by Charles R. Van Hise as a stenographer in 1892 to work on his publications, and was so...
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    of Wisconsin–Madison. It is significant for its association with Charles R. Van Hise, "who led the Department of Mineralogy and Geology to national prominence"...
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    be named permanently to the post, but was passed over in favor of Charles R. Van Hise in 1903 after a boardroom battle between university regents William...
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    university awarded its first PhD to future university president Charles R. Van Hise. Female students were first admitted to the University of Wisconsin...
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    deposits prompted the earliest studies of BIFs, such as those of Charles R. Van Hise and Charles Kenneth Leith. Iron mining operations on the Mesabi and Cuyuna...
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    quartzite. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, particularly Charles R. Van Hise, used the syncline to demonstrate that small-scale deformational...
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    at a time when the university was expanding under President Charles R. Van Hise. Van Hise and Bardeen shared the view that the one element the university...
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    Gorge, Van Hise Rock, which was used to explain the processes of structural geology by University of Wisconsin–Madison professor Charles R. Van Hise. Rock...
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  • Society of America Memoir 155, p. 14-24. Helen R. Fairbanks and Charles P. Berkey, Life and Letters of R. A. F. Penrose Jr. Penrose's relation to the GSA...
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    sector. The framers of the NRA were heavily influenced by the work of Charles R. Van Hise, a Progressive academic who saw trusts as an inevitable feature of...
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    Charles Doolittle Walcott (March 31, 1850 – February 9, 1927) was an American paleontologist, administrator of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to...
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    Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin, lived in Fulton Charles R. Van Hise, President of the University of Wisconsin, was born in Fulton List...
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  • was the commitment of the University of Wisconsin under President Charles R. Van Hise, with LaFollette support, to use the university's powerful intellectual...
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  • United States Geological Survey in the same year, working under Charles R. Van Hise. He was a professor of Mineralogy and Petrography at Johns Hopkins...
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  • 1911: Charles E. Bessey 1912: E. C. Pickering 1913: Edmund B. Wilson 1914: Charles W. Eliot 1915: William Wallace Campbell 1916: Charles R. Van Hise 1917:...
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    was the commitment of the University of Wisconsin under President Charles R. Van Hise, with LaFollette support, to use the university's powerful intellectual...
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  • married Louise Porter Haskell, daughter of Alexander Cheves Haskell and Alice Van Yeveren, and elder sister of Mary Elizabeth Haskell. After their marriage...
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    Casper Branner (1904) Raphael Pumpelly (1905) Israel Russell (1906) Charles R. Van Hise (1907) Samuel Calvin (1908) Grove Karl Gilbert (1909) Arnold Hague...
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    stem cells (Madison) Darold Treffert, psychiatrist (Fond du Lac) Charles R. Van Hise (1857–1918), geologist and academic (Fulton) Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)...
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    left his rare book collection (1581 monographs) to McGill university. Peter R. Eakins. "Frank Dawson Adams". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved August...
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    member to the American Philosophical Society in 1902. He was awarded the Charles P. Daly Medal by the American Geographical Society in 1910. Gilbert was...
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    colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, Edward Alsworth Ross and Charles R. Van Hise).[citation needed] Ely favored eugenics, arguing the "unfit" should...
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    geologist of the United States Exploring Expedition, commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes, in the Pacific Ocean. His labors in preparing the reports of his...
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    Thompson, W. R. (1958) introduction to On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin. London: J.M. Dent. "The Origin of Species introduced by W R Thompson on"...
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    Casper Branner (1904) Raphael Pumpelly (1905) Israel Russell (1906) Charles R. Van Hise (1907) Samuel Calvin (1908) Grove Karl Gilbert (1909) Arnold Hague...
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  • Department of Mines. He spent a year as a postdoc studying under Charles R. Van Hise and Charles Kenneth Leith at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. From...
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    President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838); Charles R. Van Hise, American academic, president of the University of Wisconsin from...
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    Saltpeter Instructions for the Manufacture of Saltpetre. Columbia, S.C.: Charles P. Pelham, State Printer. OCLC 14698867 – via Internet Archive. LeConte...
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  • named after him Ryan G. Van Cleave, author Clark Van Galder, head coach of the Fresno State Bulldogs football team Charles R. Van Hise, geologist and university...
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