John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell (24 Mac 1834 - 23 September 1902) ialah seorang askar, ahli geologi, penjelajah Amerika Barat, profesor di Illinois Wesleyan University, dan pengarah institusi sains dan budaya utama. Beliau terkenal dengan Ekspedisi Powell Geographic 1869, perjalanan sungai selama tiga bulan di bawah sungai Green dan Colorado, termasuk laluan pertama yang ditaja kerajaan A.S. melalui Grand Canyon.

Powell berkhidmat sebagai pengarah kedua Penyiasatan Geologi A.S. (1881-1894) dan mencadangkan, untuk pembangunan Barat yang gersang, dasar-dasar yang diperhalusi untuk penilaian keadaannya yang tepat. Beliau menjadi pengarah pertama Biro Etnologi di Institusi Smithsonian semasa berkhidmat sebagai pengarah Kajian Geologi A.S., di mana beliau menyokong penyelidikan dan penerbitan linguistik dan sosiologi.

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 Biographical sketch (1903) by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
  NPS John Wesley Powell Photograph Index
 
 
John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference at Illinois Wesleyan University
John Wesley Powell Collection of Pueblo Pottery at Illinois Wesleyan University Ames Library
Powell Museum, Page, Arizona
John Wesley Powell River History Museum, Green River, Utah
"John Wesley Powell"  by James M. Aton in the Western Writers Series Digital Editions at Boise State University
"A Canyon Voyage, The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872" (1908) by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh at Project Guteberg
Powell, J. W., In Fowler, D. D., & In Fowler, C. S. (1971). Anthropology of the Numa: John Wesley Powell's manuscripts on the Numic peoples of Western North America, 1868-1880. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off..
Fowler, D. D., Matley, J. F., & National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). (1979). Material culture of the Numa: The John Wesley Powell Collection, 1867-1880. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
John Wesley Powell artifact collections in the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

Kelahiran 1834
Kematian 1902