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Johnson, Douglas (Wilson)

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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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