Beck, Lewis Caleb (1798–1853)
| US physician and scientist, born in Schenectady, New York. Licensed as a physician in 1818, he used his rural travels to collect natural observations. He taught scientific subjects at Rutgers (1830–31, 1838–53) and elsewhere, and wrote various works, including a Gazetteer of Illinois and Missouri (1823). |
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