John Fillmore Hayford | |
Birth Date: | May 19, 1868 |
Birth Place: | Rouses Point, New York |
Death Place: | Evanston, Illinois, U.S. |
Field: | Geodesy |
Work Institutions: | United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
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Alma Mater: | Cornell University College of Engineering |
Known For: | Isostasy |
Prizes: | Honorary doctorate from George Washington University 1918; Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society 1924 |
John Fillmore Hayford (May 19, 1868 – March 10, 1925) 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 Academy of Sciences in 1911 and the American Philosophical Society in 1915.[1] [2] The crater Hayford on the far side of the Moon is named after him.[3] Mount Hayford, a 1,871 m mountain peak near Metlakatla, Alaska, United States, is named after him.[4] A biography of Hayford may be found in the Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, 16 (5), 1935.