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Johnson, Douglas

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Johnson, Douglas (Wilson) (1878–1944)

US geomorphologist and geographer. He was commissioned a major by army intelligence during World War I and studied the effect of land formation on military strategy in Europe. A professor at Columbia 1919–44, he published The Shore Processes and Shoreline Development 1919 and New England-Acadian Shoreline 1925, later founding the Journal of Geomorphology 1938–42.

He was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia. After earning his PhD from Columbia University, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1903–07 and Harvard University 1907–12.



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