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About Josiah Whitney
Josiah Dwight Whitney was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University, and chief of the California Geological Survey (1860–1874). Through his travels and studies in the principal mining regions of the United States, Whitney became the foremost authority of his day on the economic geology of the U.S. Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States, and the Whitney Glacier, the first confirmed glacier in the United States, on Mount Shasta, were both named after him by members of the Survey.
Everything about Josiah Whitney →- Occupation
- explorer, university teacher, geologist, metallurgist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- November 23, 1819
- Died
- August 15, 1896