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Denison Olmsted was an American physicist and astronomer. Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon.

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Denison Olmsted

U.S. physicist and astronomer (1791–1859)

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June 18, 1791

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May 13, 1859

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