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Photographer: William J. Toman
Taken: April 13, 2012
Caption: Geology and Geophysics in Science Hall Marker
Additional Description: This marker is to the right just inside the front entrance of Science Hall, and reads as follows:

Geology was first taught by a professor of chemistry and natural history in 1856. In 1870 Roland D. Irving, grandnephew of Washington Irving, was appointed to the first chair of geology within a new Department of Geology, Mining and Metallurgy, which moved into the original Science Hall in 1877. Geology resided in present Science Hall from 1887 until 1974. While housed here, the science at Wisconsin gained international recognition under the leadership of T.C. Chamberlin, C.R. Van Hise, C.K. Leith, W.J. Mead, W.H. Twenhofel and others. Van Hise earned the university's first PhD, and both he and Chamberlin served as presidents during Wisconsin's emergence as a major educational, research, and science institution. The base station for global gravity measurements was established here in the 1950s by G.P. Woollard. In 1974 the Department of Geology and Geophysics moved to Lewis G. Weeks Hall for Geological Sciences, gift of a distinguished 1917 Geology graduate.
Submitted: April 15, 2012, by William J. Toman of Green Lake, Wisconsin.
Database Locator Identification Number: p200508
File Size: 1.504 Megabytes

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