Charles R. Van Hise
Charles Richard Van Hise | |
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin | |
Nationality | American |
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Fields | Geology |
Institutions | University of Wisconsin |
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Charles Richard Van Hise (May 29, 1857 – November 19, 1918) was an American geologist, academic and progressive. He served as president of the University of Wisconsin (UW) in Madison, Wisconsin, from 1903 to 1918.
Early life and education
Charles Van Hise was born in 1857 in Fulton, Wisconsin, the son of William and Mary, who were farmers. At age 13 he moved with his family to a farm near Evansville, Wisconsin, where he completed his secondary education at the Evansville Seminary.[1] In 1874, he enrolled at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1879. He received another B.S. in 1880 and a M.S. in 1882. In 1892 he became the first to earn a Ph.D. degree from the school, receiving a doctorate in geology. He married Alice Bushnell Ring in 1881. They had three children.[2]
Career
Early
Van Hise joined the faculty of the university immediately after graduating, as an instructor in chemistry and metallurgy (1879–1883). He then proceeded through the academic ranks as an assistant professor of metallurgy (1886–1888), professor of mineralogy and petrography (1888–1892), professor of Archaean and applied geology (1890–1892), and professor of geology (after 1892). Within this time period, he also taught at the University of Chicago as a nonresident professor of structural geology and metamorphic geology.
Upon joining the college faculty in 1879, Van Hise began collaborating with his former geology professor, Roland Irving, on a study of the
Later
Van Hise retired from teaching and research and was elected by the Board of Regents to become the president of the
Van Hise supported eugenics laws, and promoted eugenic thought by founding the University of Wisconsin School of Criminology, stating: "We know enough about eugenics so that if that knowledge were applied, the defective classes would disappear within a generation."[5]
Writing in After Seven Years, his 1939 account of his role as an advisor to President
Van Hise worked as a consulting geologist for the
Awards and honors
- Elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1902.[11]
- Elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1905.
- Elected member of the American Philosophical Society in 1909.[12]
- Elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1911.[13]
- Van Hise Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus at the intersection of Charter and Linden Streets is named after him.
- There is an elementary school in Madison named after him.
Publications
- On secondary enlargements of mineral fragments in certain rocks with Roland Duer Irving. USGS Bulletin No. 8, 1884
- Correlation Papers . . . Archœan and Algonkian (1892)
- Principles of North American Pre-Cambrian Geology (1896)
- Some Principles Controlling the Deposition of Ores (1901)
- The Iron Ores of the Lake Superior Region (1901)
- An Attempt to Reduce the Phenomena of Rock Alterations to Order under the Laws of Energy (1903)
- A Treatise on Metamorphism (1904)
- The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States (1910)
- Concentration and Control (1912; new edition, 1915)
- Conservation and Regulation in the United States During the World War: An Outline for a Course of Lectures to be Given in Higher Educational Institutions, Part 1 (1917)
- Conservation and Regulation in the United States During the World War: An Outline for a Course of Lectures to be Given in Higher Educational Institutions, Part 2 (1918)
- Some Economic Aspects of the World War (1918)
References
- ^ a b c Charles W. Carey, Jr. American Scientists. New York: Facts on File, 2006. p. 378.
- ^ "Van Hise, Charles Richard 1857 - 1918". Archived from the original on June 11, 2011.
- ^ Drury, Gwen. "The Wisconsin Idea: The Vision that Made Wisconsin Famous" (PDF).
- ^ "vanhise-1905-speech-pressrelease.pdf" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 21, 2021.
- ^ "The liberals who loved eugenics - The Washington Post". The Washington Post.
- ^ Keir B. Sterling. Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1997, pp. 793-795.
- PMC 1090983.
- ^ Fairchild, Herman LeRoy. The Geological Society of America 1888-1930: A Chapter in Earth Science History. New York: The Geological Society of America, 1932.
- ISBN 0-8137-1155-X.
- ^ "C. R. Van Hise". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved December 14, 2023.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved December 14, 2023.
- ^ "Charles Richard Van Hise". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. February 9, 2023. Retrieved December 14, 2023.
External links
- Biography of Van Hise at the Wisconsin Electronic Reader
- Biographies of the chancellors and presidents of the University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Portrait of Charles Richard Van Hise from the Lick Observatory Records Digital Archive, UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine