Benjamin Silliman
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Benjamin Silliman was an American chemist and science educator. He was one of the first American professors of science, the first science professor at Yale, and the first person to use the process of
Silliman around 1850
Silliman as he appears at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Silliman c. 1860
Benjamin Silliman
James Dwight Dana
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James Dwight Dana FRS FRSE was an American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of co
Benjamin Silliman
…purchased a Nooth apparatus and opened a soda fountain in New Haven. He marketed his mineral waters for their medicinal properties. Like his son-in-law James Dana, Silliman was a Christian. In an address delivered before the Association of American Geologists he spoke in favor of old Earth creationism, stating…
Dana in 1865
Dana, painted by Daniel Huntington in 1858