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Alexander Dallas Bache

1806 - 1867

Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and first President of the National Academy of Sciences, 1863.

AAAS Presidential Address: "Address of Professor A. D. Bache," AAAS Proceedings (1851) 6:xli-lx.

Discipline: Oceanography

AAAS offices held:

President, 1850
Related Archives:

American Philosophical Society Library (Philadelphia, PA)
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