Joseph Henry

✶December 17, 1797

†May 13, 1878

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Joseph Henry was an American physicist and inventor who served as the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was the secretary for the National Institute for the Promotion of Science, a precursor of the Smithsonian Institution. He also served as president of the National Academy of Sciences from 1868 to 1878.

American scientist and the 1st Secretary of the Smithsonian (1797-1878)

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