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Denison Olmsted | |
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| Born | June 18, 1791 |
| Died | May 13, 1859 (aged 67) |
| Alma mater | Yale College |
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| Institutions | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Yale College |
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Denison Olmsted (June 18, 1791 – May 13, 1859) was an American physicist and astronomer.[1] Professor Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon.
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Olmsted, Denison". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 90.
