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George Jarvis Brush | |
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| Born | (1831-12-15)December 15, 1831 Brooklyn, New York |
| Died | February 5, 1912(1912-02-05) (aged 80) New Haven, Connecticut |
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| Fields | Mineralogy |
| Institutions | Sheffield Scientific School American Association for the Advancement of Science |
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George Jarvis Brush (December 15, 1831 – February 5, 1912) was an Americanmineralogist and academic administrator who spent most of his career atYale University in theSheffield Scientific School.
Brush was born inBrooklyn,New York on December 15, 1831.[1] He studied atCream Hill Agricultural School and commenced his studies at Yale in 1848 with courses fromBenjamin Silliman, Jr. andJohn Pitkin Norton on practical chemistry and agriculture. He also studied chemistry, metallurgy and mineralogy. He left in 1850 to work with Benjamin Silliman, Jr. but received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1852 by special examination. From 1852 to 1855, Brush worked and studied at theUniversity of Virginia and inMunich andFreiberg. He returned to Sheffield in 1855 to join the faculty as professor ofMetallurgy and later of Mineralogy. Brush had begun acquiring an extensive research collection of minerals. He was appointed the first curator of thePeabody Museum of Natural History's mineral collection. He was a member of theConnecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In 1872, he became the first director of Sheffield, where he also supervised mineralogy.[2]: 8 He served as thepresident of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science in 1881. He published extensively in theAmerican Journal of Science and other journals. He also published aManual of Determinative Mineralogy (1875; fifteenth edition, 1899).
In 1898, Brush retired from teaching and administration at Sheffield. He continued serving at the school, however, as secretary, treasurer and president of the board, until 1911.
In 1904, Brush donated his collection of minerals, along with funds for their maintenance, to Sheffield. Originally housed in Hammond Hall at Yale, the Brush Collection is now administered by the Division of Mineralogy at the Yale Peabody Museum.
Brush died inNew Haven on February 5, 1912.[1] The mineralbrushite was named in his honor by G. E. Moore.
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