Denison Olmsted
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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