William Henry Brewer

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William Henry Brewer (Poughkeepsie, September 14th 1828 - New Haven, November 2nd 1910) is a chemist, a geologist and a American Botaniste .

He is the son of Henry Brewer and Rebecca born Of Wood. He obtains off his Bachelor Philosophy in 1852 at the scientific school Sheffield of the Yale College. He supplements his studies with Heidelberg, Munich and Paris. It Marie with Angelina Jameson the August 15th 1858. He becomes professor of Chimie and Géologie to the Washington College of Pennsylvania of 1858 with 1860. His wife dies this year. He becomes first assistant at the geological research service of California of 1860 with 1864. He teaches, in 1863 - 1864 chemistry at the University of California then agriculture in Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College of 1892 with 1903. It remarie with Georgiana Robinson on September 1st 1868 (she will die in 1889).

It directs the commission of public health of the Connecticut of 1892 to 1909. He is secretary and treasurer of the experimental station of Connecticut of 1877 with 1902. Brewer contributes to the creation of the forest school of Yale in 1900. It receives off a honorary Doctorat Laws of the Université of Yale in 1903.

Brewer is interested in many disciplines having a relationship with agriculture like the Géographie, geology and the Botanique. It collects 2 000 S of plants in California which will be used in Botany off California (1875). With an aim of improving agriculture, it contributes to found the first agricultural experimental station of the the United States of America. It publishes approximately 140 articles on these topics but also on the public health.

Source

Keir B. Sterling, Richard P. Harmond, George A. Cevasco & Lorne F. Hammond (to dir.) (1997). Biographical dictionary off American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists . Greenwood Close (Westport): xix + 937 p.

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