Deceased Inductee

deceased inductee to CSHF

Matthew Fontaine Maury

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Lieutenant Matthew Fontaine Maury USNMatthew Fontaine Maury (1806 -1873), known as "the Pathfinder of the Seas" was, to all intents and purposes, the founder of the modern sciences of hydrography and oceanography. On a plaque at Goshen Pass, (Previously stated by Dr.

Joseph Henry

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Joseph HenryJoseph Henry (1797-1878) was a great American physicist and professor at Princeton University. He discovered the principle of self-induction (the standard unit for which is named after him) and invented the electromagnetic motor and the galvanometer.

William Prout

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William Prout (1785-1850) authored one of the Bridgewater Treatises: Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digestion, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology. As a chemist and physiologist, he was an early leader in the sciences of nutrition and digestion, and was the first to identify basic foodstuffs as fats, proteins and carbohydrates. He is best known, however, for recognizing that the atomic weights of elements could be identified as a series of relative whole numbers.

Thomas Chalmers

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Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847) was a leader in the Church of Scotland and professor of theology in the University of Edinburgh. He authored the first two Bridgewater Treatises, published in two volumes under the title The Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man. He wrote extensively on both the natural and social sciences, as well as theology, and was chiefly responsible for the popularization of the "gap theory" as a supposed defense of the Genesis record against the uniformitarian geologists.

Peter Mark Roget

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Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869) was an English physician and physiologist, one of the founders of the University of London and the Medical School at Manchester. He is best known, however, for the famous Roget's Thesaurus, used by countless writers for five generations. He also authored one of the famous Bridgewater Treatises, Animal and Vegetable Physiology Considered with Reference to Natural Theology.

John Kidd M.D.

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John Kidd, M.D. (1775-1851) was Professor of Chemistry at Oxford during most of his career, and made many significant contributions in this field. He pioneered in the use of coal as a source of chemicals, his work eventually providing the foundation for the development of synthetics. As a well-respected Christian, he was chosen to present one of the Bridgewater Treatises, entitled The Adaptation of Nature to the Physical Condition of Man.

Samuel Miller

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Samuel Miller. Contemporary portrait.Samuel Miller (1770-1840) was a Presbyterian minister who wrote a definitive and very influential history of the scientific advances in the eighteenth century, a two-volume work entitled Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century.

Benjamin Barton

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Benjamin Smith BartonBenjamin Smith Barton (1766 -1815) was a prominent American physician, botanist and zoologist, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He wrote the first American textbook on botany, as well as the natural history of the Lewis and Clark expedition. As a Christian, he was vitally interested in ethnology and the origin of the different tribes and nations.

Jedidiah Morse

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Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) was a godly Congregational minister and father of Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph. He was also the leading geographer of America during his lifetime. He wrote the first American textbook of geography, almost universally used in the schools of the day and going through 25 editions, many of them after his death.

William Kirby

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William Kirby (1759-1850) was an English clergyman and entomologist. He wrote many devotional and many scientific works, including a four-volume Introduction to Entomology. He is best known, however, for his authorship of two of the famous Bridgewater Treatises, Volumes X and XI, with the title: On the Power and Wisdom of God and His Goodness as Manifested in the Creation of Animals, with a shorter subtitle: On the History, Habits and Instincts of Animals.

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