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George Peter ("Pete") Murdock (May 11, 1897 – March 29, 1985), also known as G. P. Murdock, was an American anthropologist who was professor at Yale University and University of Pittsburgh. He is remembered for his empirical approach to ethnological studies and his study of family and kinship structures across differing cultures.
Frederick Albert Cook (June 10, 1865 – August 5, 1940) was an American explorer, physician and ethnographer, who is most known for allegedly being the first to reach the North Pole on April 21, 1908.
John Reed Swanton (February 19, 1873 – May 2, 1958) was an American anthropologist, folklorist, and linguist who worked with Native American peoples throughout the United States.
Ian Murdock – founder of the Debian Project; David E. Nichols – pharmacologist, world-renowned expert on psychedelics, founder of the Heffter Institute; Alex Golden Oblad – chemist and chemical engineer who worked on catalysis; Edward Mills Purcell – Nobel Laureate in Physics in 1952; C. N. R. Rao – solid-state and materials chemist
Frederick Weygold (June 13, 1870 in Saint Charles, Missouri – August 13, 1941 in Louisville, Kentucky) was an American painter, photographer and ethnographer, who has researched the life and culture of the North American Indians mainly examples of various Sioux tribes and artistically presented as scientific.
Horace Mitchell Miner (May 26, 1912 – November 26, 1993) was an American anthropologist, particularly interested in those languages of his time that were still closely tied to the earth and agricultural practices.
Frank H. Cushing, edited by Jesse Green, foreword by Fred Eggan, Introduction by Jesse Green, Zuni: Selected Writings of Frank Hamilton Cushing University of Nebraska Press, 1978, hardcover, 440 pages, ISBN 0-8032-2100-2; Green, Jesse (1990): Cushing at Zuni: the Correspondence and Journals of Frank Hamilton Cushing 1879-1893. University of New ...
Additionally, he was an ethnographer in the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, in Paris during 1918–1919. [8] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1919. [15] William Farabee was a notable member of the anthropological community. His contributions to the early field of genetics helped pave the way for future research.