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Joseph Henry

1797 - 1878

First Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1846 to 1878. Henry also served as President of the National Academy of Sciences from 1868 to 1878.

AAAS Presidential Address: None published.

Discipline: Physics

AAAS offices held:

• President, 1849

Related Archives:

• American Philosophical Society Library (Philadelphia, PA)
  http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/
  
  
• Joseph Henry Papers Project, Smithsonian Institution Archives
  http://www.si.edu/archives/ihd/jhp/index.htm