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November 24, 1864. Benjamin Silliman died.—The first professor of chemistry at Yale, and the founder and editor of the American Journal of Science and Arts, Silliman owed his reputation mainly to his lectures and writings on chemistry and geology. His-son, also Benjamin Silliman (1816–85), was his successor at Yale.
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S., E. Calendar of Scientific Pioneers. Nature 108, 420 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108420a0
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