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Arnold Henry Guyot (
September 28,
1807 –
February 8,
1884),
Swiss-
American geologist and
geographer, was born at Boudevilliers, near
Neuchâtel,
Switzerland.
He studied at the college of Neuchâtel and in
Berlin,
Germany, where he began a lifelong friendship with
Louis Agassiz. He was professor of history and physical geography at the short-lived Neuchâtel Academy from 1839 to 1848, when he removed, at Agassiz's instance, to the
United States, settling in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. For several years he was a lecturer for the Massachusetts State Board of Education, and he was professor of geology and physical geography at Princeton from 1854 until death. Today, the building housing the Department of Geosciences at Princeton is named Guyot Hall in his honor.
He ranked high as a geologist and
meteorologist. As early as
1838, he undertook, at Agassiz's suggestion, the study of
glaciers, and was the first to announce, in a paper submitted to the Geological Society of France, certain important observations relating to
glacial motion and structure. Among other things he noted the more rapid flow of the center than of the sides, and the more rapid flow of the top than of the bottom of glaciers; described the laminated or ribboned structure of the glacial ice, and ascribed the movement of glaciers to a gradual molecular displacement rather than to a sliding of the ice mass as held by
de Saussure. He subsequently collected important data concerning erratic boulders.
His extensive meteorological observations in America led to the establishment of the
United States Weather Bureau, and his
Meteorological and Physical Tables (1852, revised ed. 1884) were long standard. His graded series of text-books and wall-maps were important aids in the extension and popularization of geological study in America. In addition to text-books, his principal publications were:
- Earth and Man, Lectures on Comparative Physical Geography in its Relation to the History of Mankind (translated by Professor CC Felton, 1849)
- A Memoir of Louis Agassiz (1883)
- Creation, or the Biblical Cosmogony in the Light of Modern Science (1884).
He is the namesake of several geographical features, including
Guyot Glacier in
Alaska,
Mount Guyot in North Carolina, and a different
Mount Guyot in New Hampshire.
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