Robert G. Albion

Robert Greenhalgh Albion
Mystic Seaport photo, by Mary Anne Stets
Born( 1896 -08-15)August 15, 1896
Malden, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedAugust 9, 1983(1983-08-09) (aged 86)
Groton, Connecticut, U.S.
Alma materBowdoin College (AB)
Harvard University (MA, PhD)
SpouseJennie Barnes Pope (deceased in 1975)
AwardsPresidential Medal for Merit
Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Bowdoin College
Scientific career
FieldsOceanic History
InstitutionsPrinceton University,
Department of the Navy,
Harvard University,
University of Maine
Thesis Forests and Sea Power: The Timber Problem of the Royal Navy  (1926)
Doctoral advisorWilbur Cortez Abbott[1]
Doctoral studentsJohn Curtis Perry

Robert Greenhalgh Albion (August 15, 1896 in Malden, Massachusetts – August 9, 1983 in Groton, Connecticut)[2] was Harvard's first professor of Oceanic History and inspired two generations of maritime historians in the United States.[3]

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