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After graduation, Chisholm first worked with Colin Clark at the Agricultural Economics Research Institute in the University of Oxford, from 1954 to 1959. In 1960, Chisholm took up an assistant lectureship at Bedford College, London, under Gordon Manley, before moving in 1965 to the University of Bristol. In Bristol, he was promoted to Reader in ...
Kory, 82, taught geography at Pitt-Johnstown for nearly 50 years, from 1971 to 2021. As professor emeritus, Kory has plans to teach courses occasionally and continue serving as editor of the ...
Over the course of his academic career, he developed undergraduate and graduate level courses in transportation, urban and historical geography. His research interests included the history and development of both regional railroads and commuter (regional) airlines. Since his retirement he has continued writing and publishing on those subjects.
The elder Sauer was interested in history and geography and felt there was a strong relationship between the two fields of study. His outlook most likely had a strong influence on his son's perspective. After graduating in 1908, Sauer studied geology briefly at Northwestern University and then moved to the University of Chicago to
His career in geography profoundly impacted the discipline, and he is perhaps the most influential geographer of the past century. [24] The Library of Congress maintains some of Tobler's early work in "The Waldo Tobler Collection" within the broader "Geographic Information Systems (GIS) & Geospatial Resources," and the UC Santa Barbra Library ...
Ellen Churchill Semple (January 8, 1863 – May 8, 1932) was an American geographer and the first female president of the Association of American Geographers.She contributed significantly to the early development of the discipline of geography in the United States, particularly studies of human geography.
Matthew H. Edney was born in 1962 in London SW19. He completed the B.Sc. (hons.) in Geography at University College London (1983) and then the M.S. in Cartography (1985) and Ph.D. in Geography (1990) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. [1]
Richard Hartshorne (1899–1992) – scholar of the history and philosophy of geography. Torsten Hägerstrand (1916–2004) – critic of the quantitative revolution and regional science, noted figure in critical geography. Milton Santos (1926–2001) winner of the Vautrin Lud prize in 1994, one of the most important geographers in South America.