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1849–1924 United States

Robert Simpson Woodward (July 21, 1849 – June 29, 1924) was an American civil engineer, astronomer, physicist, mathematician, geologist, and geographer. He was elected in 1885 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1896 to the U.S.

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Closely related to the questions of secular contraction and the mechanics of crust movements are those vexed question of earthquakes, volcanism, the liquidity or solidity of the interior, and the rigidity of the earth's mass as a whole—all questions of the greatest interest, but still lingering on the battle-fields of scientific opinion.

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