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Benjamin Peirce

1809 - 1880

Perkins Chair of Mathematics and Astronomy at Harvard College and Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey from 1867 to 1874.

AAAS Presidential Address: "Address of Professor Benjamin Peirce," AAAS Proceedings (1854) 8:1-17.

Discipline: Mathematics

AAAS offices held:

• President, 1852

Related Archives:

• Harvard University Library, University Archives
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