Benjamin Silliman, Sr.

Affiliations: 
Yale University, New Haven, CT 
Area:
geology
Website:
http://peabody.yale.edu/collections/archives/biography/benjamin-silliman
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(1779 - 1864)
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20000974.html
http://seas.yale.edu/i-am/alumnus/yale-history-blog
http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/Info/sillimanbsr.pdf
Silliman Sr retired in 1853, and was succeeded by his son, Benjamin Silliman, Jr. , c.f. http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/HIST/bulletin_open_access/num12/num12%20p35-38.pdf

Mean distance: 10.1 (cluster 2)
 
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Robert Hare research scientist 1802-1804 Penn
James Woodhouse research scientist 1802-1804 Penn
Thomas Charles Hope research scientist 1805 Edinburgh

Children

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Josiah Parsons Cooke research assistant
James Dwight Dana research assistant 1833 Yale (Terrestrial Ecology Tree)
Othniel Charles Marsh research assistant 1862 Yale (Geotree)
Samuel Morse grad student Yale College (Physics Tree)
Josiah D. Whitney grad student 1839 Yale
Benjamin Silliman, Jr. grad student 1840 Yale
Amos Eaton post-doc 1816 Yale
Denison Olmsted post-doc 1818 Yale (Physics Tree)
Charles Upham Shepard post-doc 1827-1831 Yale (Geotree)
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