Lewis Ellsworth Akeley

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Lewis Ellsworth Akeley also in the spelling variant Lewis E. Akeley (born February 22, 1861 in Clarendon , Orleans County , New York , † September 5, 1961 in Vermillion , Clay County , South Dakota ) was an American scientist and university professor .

Life

Family and education

Lewis Ellsworth Akeley, son of from the state of Vermont originating Daniel Webster Akeley (1834-1921) and his wife Julia Maria Born Glidden (1835-1909), older brother of the taxidermist , scientist and inventor Carl Akeley , turned after visiting the public schools in his hometown of Clarendon to study science, in 1882 he graduated from the State Normal School at Brockport. Lewis Ellsworth Akeley then continued his studies at the University of Rochester , where he earned a Bachelor of Science in 1886 and a Master of Arts in 1888 . In 1890 he spent two semesters abroad at the University of Leipzig .

The Republican Freemason and Baptist Lewis Ellsworth Akeley married Myra Augusta, born Thomas (1870–1963), on December 21, 1891 in Vermillion. From this marriage came the physicist Edward Stowe Akeley (1895-1983) and the teacher Marion married Miller (1896-1980). Akeley died in the fall of 1961 half a year after he had turned 100 in Vermillion.

Professional background

Lewis Ellsworth Akeley started his career as a teacher at St. Cloud Normal School, Minnesota . In 1887 he followed a call to the professorship of chemistry and physics at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion , which had opened five years earlier . In addition, he held courses on Latin , physical geography and physiology . In 1908 he resigned his professorship after being appointed second dean at the College of Engineering, which he helped initiate. In 1933 he retired. He then taught philosophy part-time until he was 95 . Lewis Ellsworth Akeley, a teacher of Ernest Lawrence , assessed classicism as an integral part of academic training.

Renowned scientist Lewis Ellsworth Akeley, a member of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Delta Phi, received an honorary doctorate in law from the University of Rochester in 1912 and a Doctor of Science from the University of South Dakota in 1927 .

Fonts

  • Papers, circa 1916-ca. 1931, archive material: English
  • Bergson and Science, in: The Philosophical Review , v24 n3, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, May 1915, pp. 270-287.
  • Wholes and Prehensive Unities for Physics and Philosophy, in: The Journal of Philosophy , v24 n22, FJE Woodbridge: WT Bush, New York City, October 27, 1927, pp. 589-608.
  • The Problematic Situation. Its Symbolization and Meanings, in: The Journal of Philosophy, v31n25, FJE Woodbridge: WT Bush, New York City, December 6, 1934, pp. 673-681.
  • This is what we had in mind; early memories of the University of South Dakota, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, 1959

literature

  • James McKeen Cattell : American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory, Volume 3, Bowker, New York, 1921, p. 6.
  • Alberta Chamberlain Lawrence: Who's Who Among North American Authors, Volume 4, Golden Syndicate Publishing Company, Los Angeles, 1930, p. 1154.
  • Robert Cecil Cook: Who's who in American education: an illustrated biographical dictionary of eminent living educators of the United States, Volume 2, Who's Who in American Education, New York, 1930, p. 17.
  • Who was who in America with world notables: volume IV, 1961-1968, Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1968, p. 17.

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personal data
SURNAME Akeley, Lewis Ellsworth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Akeley, Lewis E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Clarendon , Orleans County , New York
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1961
Place of death Vermillion , Clay County , South Dakota