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Henry Stephens Washington (January 15, 1867 – January 7, 1934) was an American
geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the structure, composition, and History of Earth, history of Earth. Geologists incorporate techniques from physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, and geography to perform research in the Field research, ...
.


Biography

Washington was born in
Newark, New Jersey Newark ( , ) is the List of municipalities in New Jersey, most populous City (New Jersey), city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, the county seat of Essex County, New Jersey, Essex County, and a principal city of the New York metropolitan area. ...
on January 15, 1867. He attended
Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...
, graduating in 1886, and took his masters there two years later. He received his Ph.D. at the
University of Leipzig Leipzig University (), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 December 1409 by Frederick I, Electo ...
in 1893. He also studied at the American School for Classical Studies in
Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ...
, Greece. His research included trips to Greece,
Asia Minor Anatolia (), also known as Asia Minor, is a peninsula in West Asia that makes up the majority of the land area of Turkey. It is the westernmost protrusion of Asia and is geographically bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean ...
,
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,
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,
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and the
Hawaiian islands The Hawaiian Islands () are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the Pacific Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the Hawaii (island), island of Hawaii in the south to nort ...
. By 1920 he was a consulting mining geologist of high reputation.


Works

His works include: * ''Chemical Analyses of Igneous Rocks'' (1903) * ''Manual of the Chemical Analysis of Rocks'' (1904; 2d ed., 1910) * ''The Roman Cogmatic Region'' (1907) * "The Lavas of Etna" (1926, with M. Aurousseau and Mary G. Keyes) * "Rocks of Eastern China" (1926, with Mary G. Keyes) * "Petrology of the Hawaiian Islands V: The Leeward Islands" (1926, with Mary G. Keyes) * "Rocks of the
Galápagos Islands The Galápagos Islands () are an archipelago of volcanic islands in the Eastern Pacific, located around the equator, west of the mainland of South America. They form the Galápagos Province of the Republic of Ecuador, with a population of sli ...
" (1927, with Mary G. Keyes) * "Petrology of the Hawaiian Islands VI: Maui" (1928, with Mary G. Keyes)Washington, Henry S., and Mary G. Keyes
"Petrology of the Hawaiian Islands VI: Maui"
''The American Journal of Science'' 15(April 1928): 199-220.


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References

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External links


Biographical Memoir, National Academy of Sciences
1867 births 1934 deaths American geologists Yale University alumni Leipzig University alumni Scientists from Newark, New Jersey {{US-geologist-stub