Wilmot Hyde Bradley [SEP] date of birth
Wilmot Hyde Bradley
Wilmot Hyde Bradley, a.k.a. "Bill" Bradley (4 April 1899 in New Haven, CT – 12 April 1979 in Bangor, ME) was a co-founder (1943) and Chief of the Branch of Military Geology and Chief Geologist of the U.S. Geological Survey from 1944 to 1959.
He was the son of Anna Miner Hyde and John Lucius Bradley. He attended college at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University and graduated from Yale in 1920 with a Ph.D. in geology, after switching
a similar phrase -- "The Earth has its music for those who will listen"—first appeared in print in 1955 in a poem by Reginald Vincent Holmes.)
External links.
- National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir by E.V. McKelvey
- WorldCat Identities: W. H. Bradley
- National Academies Press: Photograph of Wilmot Hyde Bradley