John Fillmore Hayford
Geodesist
John Fillmore Hayford was an eminent United States geodesist. His work involved the study of isostasy and the construction of a reference ellipsoid for approximating the figure of the Earth. Hayford was elected to the United States National... Wikipedia
Born: May 19, 1868, Rouses Point, NY
Died: March 10, 1925 (age 56 years), Evanston, IL
Books: Descriptions of Bench Marks in the United States: Reprinted from Appendix 3, Report for 1903, Precise Leveling in the United States, 1900-1903, with a Readjustment of the Level Net and Resulting Elevations, The Adjustment of Observations by the Method of Least Squares: With Applications to Geodetic Work, Geodetic Operations in the United States 1906-1909: A Report to the Sixteenth General Conference of the International Geodetic Association, and more