Frank W. Preston
Deceased Person
1896 – 1989
Who was Frank W. Preston?
Frank W. Preston was an English-American engineer, ecologist, and conservationist. He helped found the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and worked to reclaim the land that is now Moraine State Park in Butler County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Preston was a leading expert in glass technology. He studied birds throughout his life and published papers on the shapes and pigmentation of birds eggs, the distribution of the heights of their nests and their migration patterns. Preston also wrote three major papers on the mathematical characteristics of ecological rarity and commonness.
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- Born
- Jun 14, 1896
Leicester - Also known as
- Frank Preston
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- University of London
- Died
- Mar 1, 1989
Butler
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on July 23, 2013
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