Josiah Dwight Whitney (23 de noviembre de 1819, Northampton, Massachusetts - 15 de agosto de 1896, el lago Sunapee, Nuevo Hampshire) fue un geólogo y profesor de geología en la Universidad de Harvard. Él era el jefe del Servicio Geológico de California (1860-1874).
Trabajos publicados
- Con John Wells Foster, Report on the Geology of the Lake superior Land District (1851–52)
- The Mineral Wealth of the United States (1854)
- Con 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)
Bibliografía
- 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.
Enlaces externos
- The Yosemite Book
- Wikimedia Commons alberga una categoría multimedia sobre Josiah Whitney.
