Alexander Dallas Bache

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Alexander Dallas Bache

Alexander Dallas Bache (born July 19, 1806 in Philadelphia , † February 17, 1867 in Newport , Rhode Island ) was an American physicist .

Life

Alexander Dallas Baches parents were Richard Franklin Bache (1784–1848) and Sophia Burrell Bache, b. Dallas. Alexander Dallas Bache was the oldest of their nine children. He was a great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin , a grandson of Richard Bache, and a nephew of George M. Dallas .

He received his education at the United States Military Academy at Westpoint . In 1825 he became a lieutenant in the topographic engineering corps , in 1827 professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania and in 1836 president of Girard College in Philadelphia. He later went on a trip to Europe to get to know the educational institutions there and organized the school system in Philadelphia from 1838 to 1842. In 1843 he replaced Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler as director of the United States Coast Survey .

In 1845, Bache was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1850 he was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In December 1861 he was admitted to the Russian Academy of Sciences as a foreign corresponding member . In the same year he became a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences .

From 1863 Bache was President of the National Academy of Sciences . Bache did a great job as superintendent of the North American coast survey.

Works

  • Observations at the magnetic and meteorological observatory at the Girard College (1840–47, 3 vols.)
  • Lectures on Switzerland (1870).

literature

  • Axel Jansen: Alexander Dallas Bache: building the American nation through science and education in the nineteenth century. Campus, Frankfurt / New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39355-1 . (English)
  • Hugh R. Slotten: Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the US Coast Survey. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1994, ISBN 0-521-43395-9 . (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Henry: Memoir of Alexander Dallas Bache . 1806-1867
  2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Bache, Alexander Dallas. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 29, 2019 (in Russian).
  3. ^ Directory of the members of the Académie des sciences since 1666: Letter B. Académie des sciences, accessed on September 15, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Bache, Alexander Dallas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1867
Place of death Newport (Rhode Island) , USA