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A professor, a president, and a meteor : the birth of American science

Author:	Cathryn J Prince
Publisher:	Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2011.
Edition/Format:	Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Describes how Professor Benjamin Silliman, beginning with his investigation of a meteorite that fell over Weston, Connecticut in the winter of 1807, inspired a generation of American scientists.
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