Josiah Whitney

Josiah Whitney
Nascimento	23 de novembro de 1819 Northampton
Morte	15 de agosto de 1896 (76 anos) Nova Hampshire
Sepultamento	Bridge Street Cemetery
Cidadania	Estados Unidos
Progenitores	Josiah Dwight Whitney Sarah Williston
Cônjuge	Louisa May Goddard
Filho(a)(s)	Eleanor Goddard Whitney
Irmão(ã)(s)	William Dwight Whitney, Maria Whitney
Alma mater	Universidade Yale Academia Phillips Round Hill School
Ocupação	explorador, professor universitário, geólogo, metalurgista
Empregador(a)	Universidade Harvard, Universidade de Iowa
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Josiah Dwight Whitney (23 de novembro de 1819, Northampton, Massachusetts - 15 de agosto de 1896, Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire) foi um geólogo, e professor de Geologia da Universidade de Harvard.^[1] Foi o chefe da California Geological Survey (1860–1874).

• com John Wells Foster, Report on the Geology of the Lake superior Land District (1851–52)
• The Mineral Wealth of the United States (1854)
• com James Hall, Geological Report on Ohio (1858)
• A Report on the Upper Mississippi Land Region (1862)
• The Geological Survey of California (1864–70)
• The Yosemite Book (1869). Later reprinted without photographs as The Yosemite Guide-Book
• Auriferous Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California (1880)
• Climatic Changes of Late Geological Times (1882)

• Brewster, Edwin Tenney. (1909) Life and Letters of Josiah Dwight Whitney.
• Bourgoin, Suzanne Michele ed. (1998) "Josiah Dwight Whitney", Encyclopedia of World Biography.
• Farquhar, Francis P. (1965) History of the Sierra Nevada.
• Johnson, Allen and Dumas Malone, ed. (1946) "Whitney, Josiah Dwight", Dictionary of American Biography (Volume X).
• Merrill, George P. (1924) The First One Hundred Years of American Geology.
• True, Frederick W. ed. (1913) "Josiah Dwight Whitney", A History of the First Half-Century of the National Academy of Sciences: 1863–1913.

• The Yosemite Book