For other people named William Clark, see William Clark (disambiguation)

William Clark (disambiguation)

-Politics:* William Clark , American soldier and explorer; governor of Missouri Territory* William Clark , American politician, US Congressman from Pennsylvania, and Treasurer of the United States...

For the Lewis and Clark Expedition, see Lewis and Clark Expedition

Lewis and Clark Expedition

The Lewis and Clark Expedition, or ″Corps of Discovery Expedition" was the first transcontinental expedition to the Pacific Coast by the United States. Commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson and led by two Virginia-born veterans of Indian wars in the Ohio Valley, Meriwether Lewis and William...

William Bullock Clark, Ph. D., LL.D (December 15, 1860 – July 27, 1917), was an American

United States

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 geologist

Geologist

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.

He was born at Brattleboro, Vermont

Brattleboro, Vermont

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, and educated at Amherst College

Amherst College

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 and in Munich. In 1888 he became connected with the United States Geological Survey

United States Geological Survey

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.

William Bullock Clark was a professor of geology

Geology

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 at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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 (1887–1917) who led the department through a period of great growth, during which it awarded forty-six PhDs, twice as many as any other university. One of these was the first PhD in meteorology ever earned in the United States awarded to Oliver Lanard Fassig

Oliver Lanard Fassig

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. In addition to this, Clark founded and directed both the Maryland State Weather Service and the Maryland Geological Survey, as well as serving as the State's representative when the Mason-Dixon line

Mason-Dixon line

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 was resurveyed in 1900.

For his work at the Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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, one of the dormitories in the Alumni Memorial Residences ("AMRs") has been named after him. The building Clark Hall (also at The Johns Hopkins University), however, is not named after him (Clark Hall is named after donor A. James Clark).

Clark died in 1917 from a stroke at the age of 57.

Sources

• The Johns Hopkins University

External links

• Clark at "The Johns Hopkins Housing Record" site