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Ellsworth Huntington (1876 – 1947) was a professor of geography
Geography

Geography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth"....
 at Yale University
Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League....
 during the early 20th century, known for his studies on climatic determinism, economic growth
Economic growth

Economic growth is the increase in the amount of the goods and services produced by an economics over time. It is conventionally measured as the percent rate of increase in real gross domestic product, or real GDP....
 and economic geography
Economic geography

Economic geography is the study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the Earth. The subject matter investigated is strongly influenced by the researcher's methodological approach....
. He served as Presidents of the Ecological Society of America in 1917, the Association of American Geographers in 1923 and the President of the Board of Directors of the American Eugenics Society
American Eugenics Society

The American Eugenics Society was a society established in 1922 to promote eugenics in the United States.It was the result of the Second International Conference on Eugenics ....
 from 1934 to 1938.

He taught at Euphrates College
Euphrates College

Euphrates College was a coeducational high school in Elazig , a town in the eastern Turkey, founded and directed by United States missionary for mostly the Armenians in Turkey in the region....
, Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
 (1897–1901); accompanied the Pumpelly
Raphael Pumpelly

Raphael Pumpelly was an United States geologist and Exploration.Invited by the respective governments, he surveyed parts of Japan and China. He made the first extensive survey of the Gobi Desert, and explored Mongolia and Siberia....
 (1903) and Barrett (1905–1906) expeditions to central Asia
Central Asia

Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
; and wrote of his Asian experiences in Explorations in Turkestan (1905) and The Pulse of Asia (1907).






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Ellsworth Huntington (1876 – 1947) was a professor of geography
Geography

Geography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth"....
 at Yale University
Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League....
 during the early 20th century, known for his studies on climatic determinism, economic growth
Economic growth

Economic growth is the increase in the amount of the goods and services produced by an economics over time. It is conventionally measured as the percent rate of increase in real gross domestic product, or real GDP....
 and economic geography
Economic geography

Economic geography is the study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the Earth. The subject matter investigated is strongly influenced by the researcher's methodological approach....
. He served as Presidents of the Ecological Society of America in 1917, the Association of American Geographers in 1923 and the President of the Board of Directors of the American Eugenics Society
American Eugenics Society

The American Eugenics Society was a society established in 1922 to promote eugenics in the United States.It was the result of the Second International Conference on Eugenics ....
 from 1934 to 1938.

He taught at Euphrates College
Euphrates College

Euphrates College was a coeducational high school in Elazig , a town in the eastern Turkey, founded and directed by United States missionary for mostly the Armenians in Turkey in the region....
, Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
 (1897–1901); accompanied the Pumpelly
Raphael Pumpelly

Raphael Pumpelly was an United States geologist and Exploration.Invited by the respective governments, he surveyed parts of Japan and China. He made the first extensive survey of the Gobi Desert, and explored Mongolia and Siberia....
 (1903) and Barrett (1905–1906) expeditions to central Asia
Central Asia

Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
; and wrote of his Asian experiences in Explorations in Turkestan (1905) and The Pulse of Asia (1907). He taught geography at Yale
Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League....
 (1907–1915) and from 1917 was a research associate
Research associate

The title of research associate is used to denote a research position in universities or industrial companies. While some organizations use the title research associate for researchers who hold a bachelor or master degree, most research associates in prestigious universities hold a doctoral degree, and the title is considered a "step-up" from a pos...
 there, devoting his time chiefly to climatic
Climatology

Climatology is the study of climate, scientifically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of time, and is a branch of the atmospheric sciences....
 and anthropogeographic studies. The Climatic Factor (1914), Civilization and Climate (1915, rev. ed. 1924), and, with S. S. Visher, Climatic Changes (1922) were among his works. He also wrote Principles of Human Geography (with S. W. Cushing, 5th ed. 1940) and Mainsprings of Civilization (1945). He was on the original standing committee of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles from 1941.

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