Henry Stephens Washington

American geologist

Henry Stephens Washington (January 15, 1867 – January 7, 1934) was an American geologist.

Biography

Washington was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 15, 1867.^[1] He attended Yale University, graduating in 1886, and took his masters there two years later.^[1] He received his Ph.D. at the University of Leipzig in 1893.^[1] He also studied at the American School for Classical Studies in Athens, Greece.^[2] His research included trips to Greece, Asia Minor, Italy, Spain, Brazil and the Hawaiian islands.^[1] By 1920 he was a consulting mining geologist of high reputation.^[2]

Works

His works include:^[2]

Chemical Analyses of Igneous Rocks (1903)
Manual of the Chemical Analysis of Rocks (1904; 2d ed., 1910)
The Roman Cogmatic Region (1907)

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "DR. H. S. WASHINGTON, PETROLOGIST, DEAD; Carnegie lnstitugion Expert on Rocks Won High Honors in Field Here and Abroad". The New York Times. January 8, 1934. 17. Retrieved April 5, 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c Rines 1920, p. 779.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Washington, Henry Stephens" . Encyclopedia Americana. p. 779.)