{ "placeOfBirthAsLiteral" : [ "Hanoverton, Ohio" ], "gender" : [ { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/gender#male", "label" : "Männlich" } ], "dateOfDeath" : [ "1924-03-23" ], "placeOfDeath" : [ { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/gnd/1144550254", "label" : "Ravenna, Ohio" } ], "familialRelationship" : [ { "forename" : [ "Charles Elwood" ], "surname" : [ "Mendenhall" ] } ], "type" : [ "AuthorityResource", "DifferentiatedPerson", "Person" ], "gndSubjectCategory" : [ { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/gnd-sc#21.5p", "label" : "Personen zu Physik" }, { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/gnd-sc#19.1dp", "label" : "Personen zu Geografie, Heimat- und Länderkunde" } ], "oldAuthorityNumber" : [ "(DE-588a)118907840", "(DE-588c)4232093-8", "(DE-588a)117566578" ], "geographicAreaCode" : [ { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/geographic-area-code#XD-US", "label" : "USA" }, { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/geographic-area-code#XB-JP", "label" : "Japan" } ], "biographicalOrHistoricalInformation" : [ "Er unterrichtete an verschiedenen Gymnasien und erwarb sich hohe Anerkennung als Lehrer und Erzieher. Obwohl er keine konventionelle akademische Ausbildung durchlaufen hatte, wurde er 1873 an die Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical School (später Ohio State University) als Professor für Physik und Mechanik berufen. 1878-1880 Aufenthalt in Japan, an der Kaiserlichen Universität Tokio, wo er den meteorologischen Dienst der japanischen Regierung mitentwickelte. Nach seiner Rückkehr 1881 nach Ohio war er maßgeblich am Aufbau des staatlichen Wetterdienstes beteiligt, bevor er 1884 eine Professur am US Army Signal Corps erhielt. 1886 gab er diese Position auf und übernahm die Präsidentschaft des Rose Polytechnic Institute in Terre Haute 1886–1889. 1889 wurde er Superintendent des U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 1889 fungierte er als Präsident der American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Von 1894 bis 1901 war er Präsident des Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). 1923 wurde er Präsident der American Physical Society." ], "affiliation" : [ { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/gnd/909-X", "label" : "American Association for the Advancement of Science" }, { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/gnd/1151412937", "label" : "Teikoku Daigaku" }, { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/gnd/290343-X", "label" : "National Geodetic Survey (USA)" }, { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/gnd/9839-5", "label" : "The Ohio State University" }, { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/gnd/507179-3", "label" : "Worcester Polytechnic Institute" }, { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/gnd/955-6", "label" : "American Physical Society" }, { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/gnd/10128293-X", "label" : "Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, Ind.). Department of Mathematics" } ], "publication" : [ "The Alaska boundary line", "Measurements of the force of gravity at Tokio and on the summit of Fujinoyama", "A century of electricity", "Scientific, technical and engineering education", "Gravity research : determinations of gravity with half-second pendulums on the Pacific coast, in Alaska and at Washington, D.C., and Hoboken" ], "describedBy" : { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/gnd/118907840/about", "maintainer" : { "id" : "https://ld.zdb-services.de/resource/organisations/DE-12", "label" : "https://ld.zdb-services.de/resource/organisations/DE-12" }, "dctCreator" : { "id" : "https://ld.zdb-services.de/resource/organisations/DE-12", "label" : "https://ld.zdb-services.de/resource/organisations/DE-12" }, "license" : { "id" : "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/", "label" : "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/" }, "dateModified" : "2023-08-28T09:14:24.000", "descriptionLevel" : { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/description-level#1", "label" : "Katalogisierungslevel 1" } }, "gndIdentifier" : "118907840", "id" : "https://d-nb.info/gnd/118907840", "placeOfActivity" : [ { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/gnd/4207701-1", "label" : "Worcester, Mass." }, { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/gnd/4446032-6", "label" : "Terre Haute, Ind." }, { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/gnd/4078337-6", "label" : "Tokio" }, { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/gnd/4085305-6", "label" : "Columbus, Ohio" } ], "preferredName" : "Mendenhall, Thomas C.", "wikipedia" : [ { "id" : "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall", "label" : "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall" } ], "preferredNameEntityForThePerson" : { "forename" : [ "Thomas C." ], "surname" : [ "Mendenhall" ] }, "depiction" : [ { "id" : "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/T.C.Mendenhall-1918.jpg", "url" : "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:T.C.Mendenhall-1918.jpg?uselang=de", "thumbnail" : "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/T.C.Mendenhall-1918.jpg?width=270", "publisher" : "Wikimedia Commons", "creatorName" : [ "Hell&Fischer Philadelphia" ], "creditText" : [ "T.C.Mendenhall" ], "copyrighted" : false, "license" : [ { "id" : "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/", "attributionRequired" : false, "name" : "Public Domain", "abbr" : "PD" } ] } ], "professionOrOccupation" : [ { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/gnd/4045968-8", "label" : "Physiker" }, { "id" : "https://d-nb.info/gnd/4398985-8", "label" : "Meteorologe" } ], "dateOfBirth" : [ "1841-10-04" ], "affiliationAsLiteral" : [ "US Army Signal Corps" ], "variantNameEntityForThePerson" : [ { "forename" : [ "T. C" ], "surname" : [ "Mendenhall" ] }, { "forename" : [ "Thomas Corwin" ], "surname" : [ "Mendenhall" ] } ], "@context" : "https://lobid.org/gnd/context.jsonld", "variantName" : [ "Mendenhall, T. C", "Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin" ], "sameAs" : [ { "id" : "http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n88142359", "collection" : { "id" : "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q13219454", "abbr" : "LC", "publisher" : "Library of Congress", "icon" : "http://www.loc.gov/favicon.ico", "name" : "NACO Authority File" } }, { "id" : "http://viaf.org/viaf/810673", "collection" : { "id" : "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54919", "abbr" : "VIAF", "publisher" : "OCLC", "icon" : "http://viaf.org/viaf/images/viaf.ico", "name" : "Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)" } }, { "id" : "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1385000", "collection" : { "id" : "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2013", "abbr" : "WIKIDATA", "publisher" : "Wikimedia Foundation Inc.", "icon" : "https://www.wikidata.org/static/favicon/wikidata.ico", "name" : "Wikidata" } }, { "collection" : { "abbr" : "DNB", "name" : "Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek", "publisher" : "Deutsche Nationalbibliothek", "icon" : "https://www.dnb.de/SiteGlobals/Frontend/DNBWeb/Images/favicon.png?__blob=normal&v=4", "id" : "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q36578" }, "id" : "https://d-nb.info/gnd/118907840/about" }, { "id" : "https://dbpedia.org/resource/Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall", "collection" : { "id" : "https://dbpedia.org" } }, { "collection" : { "abbr" : "dewiki", "name" : "Wikipedia (Deutsch)", "publisher" : "Wikimedia Foundation Inc.", "icon" : "https://de.wikipedia.org/static/favicon/wikipedia.ico", "id" : "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q48183" }, "id" : "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall" }, { "collection" : { "abbr" : "enwiki", "name" : "Wikipedia (English)", "publisher" : "Wikimedia Foundation Inc.", "icon" : "https://en.wikipedia.org/static/favicon/wikipedia.ico", "id" : "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q328" }, "id" : "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall" }, { "id" : "https://isni.org/isni/0000000081909814", "collection" : { "id" : "https://isni.org" } }, { "collection" : { "abbr" : "DE-611", "name" : "Kalliope Verbundkatalog", "publisher" : "Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz", "icon" : "https://kalliope-verbund.info/img/favicon.ico", "id" : "https://kalliope-verbund.info" }, "id" : "https://kalliope-verbund.info/gnd/118907840" } ] }