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James Dwight Dana
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American mineralogist, scientist and zoologist (1813-1895)
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James Dwight Dana was an American author and geologist, recognized in the Royal Society collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. He is the author of works including *Manual of Geology*, *Manual de mineralogía*, and *System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana*. His publications also include the *Third Appendix to the 6Th Ed. of Dana's System of Mineralogy, Part 3* and *The system of mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University*.
Born in 1813, Dana died in 1895. He is listed as a male person from the United States. In zoology, his author citation is "Dana". Records indicate he has 29 works, with five works listed in Crossref. His name appears in 669 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 29
Top works
- Manual of Mineralogy and Lithology, Containing the Elements of the Science of Minerals and Rocks. for the Use of the Practical Mineralogist and Geolog
- Manual of Geology
- Manual de mineralogía
- System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana. 1837-1868
- Third Appendix to the 6Th Ed. of Dana's System of Mineralogy, Part 3
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1956-10-23
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 84,951x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 68,286x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,835x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,896x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,494x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred word.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1813-02-12 ) February 12, 1813, Utica, New York
- Died
- April 14, 1895 (1895-04-14) (aged 82), New Haven, Connecticut
- Fields
- geology , mineralogy , zoology
- Author abbrev zoology
- Dana
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- James
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Utica
- Place of death
- New Haven
- Educated at
- Yale College
- Employer
- Yale University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Wollaston Medal
- Participant in
- United States Exploring Expedition
- Doctoral student
- Edmund Otis Hovey
- Field of work
- geology
- Image
- James Dwight Dana by Warren, 1865.jpg
- Residence
- United States
Show 14 more facts
- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Commons category
- James Dwight Dana
- date of birth
- 1813-01-01
- date of death
- 1895-01-01
- Commons Creator page
- James Dwight Dana
- author citation (zoology)
- Dana
- name in native language
- James Dwight Dana
- P6944
- James Dwight Dana
- writing language
- English language
- influenced by
- Benjamin Silliman Sr.
- has works in the collection
- Australian National Maritime Museum
- contributed to creative work
- Popular Science
- P8168
- Top Trumps
- collection items at
- National Museum of Natural History
Sources (11)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
James Dwight Dana FRS FRSE (February 12, 1813 – April 14, 1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of continents and oceans around the world.
His zoological author abbreviation is Dana.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “James Dwight Dana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.