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</style></div></div><div><div class="images" style="padding:2px 0"></div><div class="legend">Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin</div></div><table><caption style="color:#FFFFFF;text-align:center;background-color:#BA4A1B">Fonction</caption><tbody><tr class="row1col" style="background-color:#D4AD7C"><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#D4AD7C"><a href="Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_am%C3%A9ricaine_de_g%C3%A9ologie" title="Société américaine de géologie">Président de la Société américaine de géologie</a></th></tr><tr class="row1col"><th colspan="2"><span style="font-weight:normal"><time>1894</time>-<wbr><time>1895</time></span></th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="overflow infobox-navigateur" style="padding-bottom:2%;font-weight:normal"><div class="prev_bloc"><a href="John_William_Dawson" title="John William Dawson">John William Dawson</a></div><div class="next_bloc"><a href="Nathaniel_Southgate_Shaler" title="Nathaniel Southgate Shaler">Nathaniel Southgate Shaler</a></div></th></tr></tbody></table><table><caption style="color:#FFFFFF;text-align:center;background-color:#BA4A1B">Biographie</caption><tbody><tr class=""><th scope="row">Naissance</th><td class=""><div>
<span class="wd_p569"><time class="nowrap date-lien" datetime="1843-09-25" data-sort-value="1843-09-25"><a href="25_septembre" title="25 septembre">25</a> <a href="Septembre_1843" title="Septembre 1843">septembre</a> <a href="1843" title="1843">1843</a></time></span><br><span class="wd_p19"><a href="Mattoon_(Illinois)" title="Mattoon (Illinois)">Mattoon</a></span></div></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row">Décès</th><td class=""><div>
<span class="wd_p570"><time class="nowrap date-lien" datetime="1928-11-15" data-sort-value="1928-11-15"><a href="15_novembre" title="15 novembre">15</a> <a href="Novembre_1928" title="Novembre 1928">novembre</a> <a href="1928" title="1928">1928</a></time></span> (à 85 ans)<br><span class="wd_p20"><a href="Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a></span></div></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row">Sépulture</th><td class=""><div>
<span class="wd_p119">Oakwood Cemetery <small>(<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112688676" class="extiw external" title="d:Q112688676"><span class="indicateur-langue" title="Voir l'élément Wikidata correspondant">d</span></a>)</small></span></div></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row">Nationalité</th><td class=""><div>
<span class="wd_p27"><a href="%C3%89tats-Unis" title="États-Unis">américaine</a></span></div></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row">Formation</th><td class=""><div>
<span class="wd_p69"><a href="Universit%C3%A9_du_Michigan" title="Université du Michigan">Université du Michigan</a><br><a href="Beloit_College" title="Beloit College">Beloit College</a></span></div></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row">Activités</th><td class=""><div>
<span class="wd_p106"><a href="G%C3%A9ologue" title="Géologue">Géologue</a>, <a href="Enseignement" title="Enseignement">professeur d'université</a>, <a href="%C3%89crivain" title="Écrivain">écrivain</a>, <a href="Journaliste" title="Journaliste">journaliste</a></span></div></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row">Enfant</th><td class=""><div>
<span class="wd_p40">Rollin Thomas Chamberlin <small>(<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55720135" class="extiw external" title="d:Q55720135"><span class="indicateur-langue" title="Voir l'élément Wikidata correspondant">d</span></a>)</small></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table><caption style="color:#FFFFFF;text-align:center;background-color:#BA4A1B">Autres informations</caption><tbody><tr class=""><th scope="row">A travaillé pour</th><td class=""><div>
<span class="wd_p108"><a href="Universit%C3%A9_de_Chicago" title="Université de Chicago">Université de Chicago</a><br><a href="Universit%C3%A9_du_Wisconsin_%C3%A0_Whitewater" title="Université du Wisconsin à Whitewater">Université Wisconsin-Whitewater</a></span></div></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row">Membre de</th><td class=""><div>
<span class="wd_p463"><a href="Acad%C3%A9mie_nationale_des_sciences" title="Académie nationale des sciences">Académie américaine des sciences</a> <small>(<time>1903</time>)</small><br><a href="Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_am%C3%A9ricaine_de_g%C3%A9ologie" title="Société américaine de géologie">Société américaine de géologie</a><br><a href="Acad%C3%A9mie_am%C3%A9ricaine_des_arts_et_des_sciences" title="Académie américaine des arts et des sciences">Académie américaine des arts et des sciences</a></span></div></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row">Distinctions</th><td class=""><div>
<span class="wd_p166"><a href="Acad%C3%A9mie_des_sciences_naturelles" title="Académie des sciences naturelles">Prix géologique Hayden Memorial</a> <small>(<time>1920</time>)</small><br>Médaille d'or Penrose <small>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_Gold_Medal" class="extiw external" title="en:Penrose Gold Medal"><span class="indicateur-langue" title="Article sur Wikipédia en anglais">en</span></a>)</small> <small>(<time>1924</time>)</small><br><a href="M%C3%A9daille_Penrose" title="Médaille Penrose">Médaille Penrose</a> <small>(<time>1927</time>)</small></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div><div class="images" style="padding:2px 0"></div><div class="legend">Signature</div></div></div>
<p><b>Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin</b> (<time class="nowrap bday" datetime="1843-09-25" data-sort-value="1843-09-25">25 septembre 1843</time> – <time class="nowrap dday" datetime="1928-11-15" data-sort-value="1928-11-15">15 novembre 1928</time>) est un <a href="G%C3%A9ologue" title="Géologue">géologue</a> et universitaire américain.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biographie">Biographie</h2></div>
<p>Il fait ses études au <a href="Beloit_College" title="Beloit College">Beloit College</a>.
En 1893, il fonde le <i><a href="The_Journal_of_Geology" title="The Journal of Geology">Journal of Geology</a></i> duquel il est éditeur pendant plusieurs années.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>Outline of a Course of Oral Instruction</i> (1872)</li>
<li><i>Geology of Wisconsin</i> (1877)</li>
<li><i>Preliminary paper on the terminal moraine of the second glacial epoch</i> (U.S. Geological Survey, 1882)</li>
<li><i>The rock scorings of the great ice invasions</i> (U.S. Geological Survey, 1886)</li>
<li><i>The method of multiple working hypotheses.</i> <i>Science</i>. v. 15:92–96p. (1890)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>Contribution to the Theory of Glacial Motion</i> (1904)</li>
<li>Avec <a href="Rollin_D._Salisbury" title="Rollin D. Salisbury">R. D. Salisbury</a>, <i>Geology</i> (trois volumes, 1907–09)</li>
<li><i>The Origin of the Earth</i> (1916)</li></ul>
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<p>Le cratère <a href="Chamberlin_(crat%C3%A8re_lunaire)" title="Chamberlin (cratère lunaire)">Chamberlin</a> est nommé en son honneur.
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a> </span><span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/ns-15/366/92.extract">The method of multiple working hypotheses. Science. v. 15:92–96p. (1890)</a>.</span>
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<li><span class="liste-horizontale noarchive"><span class="wd_identifiers">Ressource relative à l'astronomie</span> : <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_261"><span class="lang-en" lang="en">Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers</span></a></li> </ul></span></li>
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