Eleanora Frances Bliss Knopf | |
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 1928 US Geological Survey ID Portrait | |
| Born | Eleanora Frances Bliss July 15, 1883 |
| Died | January 21, 1974 (aged 90) |
| Occupation | Geologist |
Eleanora Frances Knopf (née Bliss; July 15, 1883 – January 21, 1974) was an American geologist who worked for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and did research in the Appalachians during the first two decades of the twentieth century. She studied at Bryn Mawr College, and earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry, a master's degree in geology, and a Ph.D. in geology in 1912. She was the first American geologist to use the new technique of petrography which she pioneered in her life's work - the study of Stissing Mountain.[1]
- ^ Oakes 2007, p. 408.