John Fillmore Hayford
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1868 – 1925
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Who was John Fillmore Hayford?
John Fillmore Hayford was an eminent United States geodesist.
His work involved the study of isostasy and the construction of a reference ellipsoid for approximating the figure of the Earth.
The crater Hayford on the far side of the Moon is named after him.
Mount Hayford, a 1,871 m mountain peak near Metlakatla, Alaska, United States, is named after him.
A biography of Hayford may be found in the Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, 16, 1935.
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