Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1911-1911
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...Bowditch was a true son of Harvard and an exponent of the best traditions of New England. Grandson of the great navigator and mathematician, Nathaniel Bowditch, son of the eminent merchant and trusted administrator, Ingersoll Bowditch, nephew of the noble physician, Henry I. Bowditch, and near relative of the distinguished Pickerings of Salem, he was a Boston boy; a Harvard Bachelor of Arts of '61; a soldier throughout the war, wounded only to re-enlist; and thereafter continuously a worker in the service of his University, as student and honored teacher of physiology, until serious illness forced him from...