Pirsson, Louis V. 1860-1919
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Name (Latin)
Pirsson, Louis V. 1860-1919
Other forms of name
Pirsson, L. V. (Louis Valentine), 1860-1919
Pirsson, Louis (Louis Valentine), 1860-1919
nna Pirsson, Louis Valentine, 1860-1919
Date of birth
1860-11-03
Date of death
1919-12-08
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Analytical chemistry
Chemistry, Analytic
Geology
Mineralogy
Petrology
Occupation
Mineralogists
petrologists
College teachers
Chemists
Geologists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Pirsson, Louis Valentine (Pirsson, Louis Valentine (03 November 1860-08 December 1919), geologist, was born in Fordham, New York, the son of Francis Morris Pirsson and Louise M. Butt. At the age of sixteen he was sent to a boarding school whose headmaster, a strong supporter of Yale, later persuaded him to enter Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in 1879. He graduated with the degree of bachelor of philosophy and honors in analytical chemistry in June 1882. Pirsson continued on at the Sheffield Scientific School as a laboratory assistant and tutor. The road Pirsson followed from analytical chemist to that of geologist and petrologist was at first a fortuitous route. He accepted a field assistantship to serve under Joseph P. Iddings of the U.S. Geological Survey in 1889 in the Yellowstone National Park. He received an offer to return to his alma mater as instructor in mineralogy and lithology at the Sheffield Scientific School in the fall of 1892. Pirsson first taught mineralogy, then physical geology, and when geology was established as a department in the Sheffield Scientific School in 1893, he initiated a graduate-level course in lithology that attracted many students, presumably because of the opportunities in microscopical petrography. He continued his connection with the U.S. Geological Survey during the summer field seasons in Montana. ( (American National Biography (website), viewed Aug. 22, 2022:) )
- LCCN 15-2869: His A text-book of geology, 1915(hdg.: Pirsson, Louis Valentine, 1860-1919; usage: Louis V. Pirsson)