This articles is about the geologist; for his son see Henry Fairfield Osborn Jr.
Henry Fairfield Osborn
ForMemRS
Born
(1857-08-08)August 8, 1857
Fairfield, Connecticut, U.S.
Died
November 6, 1935(1935-11-06) (aged 78)
Garrison, New York, U.S.
Education
Princeton University (BA, PhD)
Spouse
Lucretia Thatcher Perry
(m. 1881; died 1930)
Children
5
Awards
Hayden Memorial Geological Award (1914)
Cullum Geographical Medal (1919)
Wollaston Medal (1926)
Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal (1929)
Scientific career
Fields
Geology
Paleontology
Institutions
American Museum of Natural History
Doctoral students
William King Gregory
Signature
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr.FRS[1] (August 8, 1857 – November 6, 1935)[2] was an American paleontologist, geologist and eugenics advocate. He was the president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years and a cofounder of the American Eugenics Society.
^Woodward, A. S. (1936). "Henry Fairfield Osborn. 1857–1935". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2 (5): 66–71. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1936.0006.
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