Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
American physicist and meteorologist
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall was an American autodidact physicist and meteorologist. He was the first professor hired at Ohio State University in 1873 and the superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1889 to 1894. Wikipedia
Born: October 4, 1841, Hanoverton, OH
Died: March 23, 1924 (age 82 years), Ravenna, OH
Known for: gravity; physics; stylometry; author profiling
Children: Charles Elwood Mendenhall
Awards: Cullum Geographical Medal (1901), Franklin Medal (1918), and Order of the Sacred Treasure (Japan, 1911)
Grandchild: Thomas C. Mendenhall