Edwin Emery Slosson

Edwin Emery Slosson (1865 – 1929) was an American editor, author and chemist. He was born in Albany, Kansas^[1]^[2], and was educated at the University of Kansas (B.S., 1890; M.S., 1892) and at the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1902). From 1891 to 1903 he was professor of chemistry at the University of Wyoming, and chemist at the Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station. He was connected with the Independent thereafter as literary or managing editor. From 1912 he was associate on the faculty of the school of journalism, Columbia University. Professor Slosson published: Great American Universities (1910); Major Prophets of To-Day (1914), and many magazine articles on matters scientific and literary.

In 1920, Slosson became founding director of Science Service, publisher of Science News-Letter. ^[3]

References

^ Lane's Trail and the Underground Railway
^ Albany
^ Rhees, D. J. (1979). A New Voice for Science: Science Service Under Edwin E. Slosson, 1921-1929. Unpublished Master's thesis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Available at http://scienceservice.si.edu/thesis/index.htm

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Name	Slosson, Edwin Emery
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Date of birth	1865
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Date of death	1929
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