Eugene Woldemar Hilgard
1833–1916
American stratigrapher and economic geologist. Studied at Heidelberg and Zurich, 1848–54. Appointed assistant on the state geological survey of Mississippi, 1855, and director, 1858. Appointed professor of chemistry, University of Mississippi, 1866. Professor of geology and natural history, University of Michigan, 1873–5; professor of agriculture and director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Berkeley, California, 1875–1904. Later work on pedology was instrumental in the development of cotton-growing in California.
Source
Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 9 (1919): 95–155, DAB.
Bibliography
DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.
