Mark Walrod Harrington
American astronomer and meteorologist
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Mark Walrod Harrington's Degrees
- PhD Astronomy University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mark Walrod Harrington was an American scientist, the first civilian head of the United States Weather Bureau, and former president of the University of Washington. Considered a prominent scientist in the late 19th century, Harrington studied and published works in multiple disciplines, including botany, astronomy, meteorology, and geology, and knew a half-dozen languages. His academic achievements were overshadowed by his disappearance in 1899, when he left home one day and disappeared for many years. His wife and son located him in 1908 at a psychiatric hospital in New Jersey where he had been admitted as patient John Doe No. 8.
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