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Happy is genius, when it lights on a profession entirely consonant to its powers, where the objects successively presented to it are so exactly suited to its nature, that it clings to them as the loadstone to its kindred metal among piles of foreign ores.

Denison Olmsted

Denison Olmsted

Denison Olmsted

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Born: June 18, 1791

Died: May 13, 1859 (aged 67)

Bio: Denison Olmsted was an American physicist and astronomer. 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.

Known for:

Memoir of Eli Whitney, Esq (1846)
The mechanism of the heavens (1859)

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