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William Francis Hillebrand
1853-1925
Founding member. President 1885. Honorary member 1896
Chemist, assayer
Graduate Cornell
Univ.; Ph.D. Univ. of Heidelberg; Univ. of Strassburg; Mining
Academy, Freiberg, Saxony; Dr. of Pharmacy, George Washington Univ.
Chemist, U.S.
Geological Survey; Chief chemist, U.S. Bureau of Standards
Professor of
Chemistry and Physics at George Washington Univ.
Author of articles
on methods of rock analysis and mineralogy; descriptions of Colorado
minerals
Member, National
Academy of Science, 1908; awarded Chandler Gold Medal from Columbia
Univ. 1916; President American Chemical Society 1906
from Presidents of the
Colorado Scientific Society
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