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» For the Sierra Nevada explorer and son of Joseph Le Conte, see Joseph Nisbet LeConte.
Joseph Le Conte (
February 26 1823 -
July 6 1901) was an
American geologist and professor at the
University of California, Berkeley.
Of
Huguenot descent, he was born in
Liberty County,
Georgia to
Louis Le Conte, patriarch of the noted
Le Conte family. He was educated at Franklin College in
Athens, Georgia (now the
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the
University of Georgia), where he graduated in 1841; he afterwards studied medicine and received his degree at the
New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1845. After practising for three or four years at
Macon, Georgia, he entered
Harvard University, and studied natural history under
Louis Agassiz.
In September of 1869, he moved to
Berkeley, California to join the faculty of the newly-established (1868)
University of California. His brother
John had come to California in April of 1869 to also join the faculty of the new University as a professor of physics. Joseph was appointed the first professor of geology and natural history at the University, a post which he held until his death.
He published a series of papers on
monocular and
binocular vision, and also on
psychology. In
1874, he was nominated to the
National Academy of Sciences. He became concerned that resource exploitation (such as
sheepherding) would ruin the Sierra, so co-founded the
Sierra Club with Muir and others in 1892. The Sierra Club built the
LeConte Memorial Lodge in his honor in 1904. The
Le Conte Canyon,
Le Conte Divide,
Le Conte Falls and
Mount Le Conte were named after him. He is buried in
Mountain View Cemetery in
Oakland, California.
References
- Obituary by J. J. Stevenson, Annals of New York Acad. of Sciences, vol. xiv. (1902), p. 150.
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