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dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gravity" title="Gravity">gravity</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Physics" title="Physics">physics</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Stylometry" title="Stylometry">stylometry</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Author_profiling" title="Author profiling">author profiling</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Susan Allan Marple</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1870)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Elwood_Mendenhall" title="Charles Elwood Mendenhall">Charles Elwood Mendenhall</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_C._Mendenhall_(historian)" title="Thomas C. Mendenhall (historian)">Thomas C. Mendenhall</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(grandson)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cullum_Geographical_Medal" title="Cullum Geographical Medal">Cullum Geographical Medal</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1901)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Franklin_Medal" title="Franklin Medal">Franklin Medal</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1918)</span> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Sacred_Treasure" title="Order of the Sacred Treasure">Order of the Sacred Treasure</a> (Japan) <span style="font-size:85%;">(1911)</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gravity" title="Gravity">gravity</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Physics" title="Physics">physics</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Seismology" title="Seismology">seismology</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Meteorology" title="Meteorology">meteorology</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Stylometry" title="Stylometry">stylometry</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Author_profiling" title="Author profiling">author profiling</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Signature</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="infobox-signature skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Signature_of_Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall_(1841%E2%80%931924).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Signature_of_Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall_%281841%E2%80%931924%29.png/150px-Signature_of_Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall_%281841%E2%80%931924%29.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Signature_of_Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall_%281841%E2%80%931924%29.png 1.5x" data-file-width="196" data-file-height="27" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Thomas Corwin Mendenhall</b> (October 4, 1841 – March 23, 1924) was an American <a href="/wiki/Autodidact" class="mw-redirect" title="Autodidact">autodidact</a> <a href="/wiki/Physicist" title="Physicist">physicist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Meteorologist" title="Meteorologist">meteorologist</a>. He was the first professor hired at <a href="/wiki/Ohio_State_University" title="Ohio State University">Ohio State University</a> in 1873 and the superintendent of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Coast_and_Geodetic_Survey" title="United States Coast and Geodetic Survey">United States Coast and Geodetic Survey</a> (one of the ancestor organizations of the <a href="/wiki/National_Oceanic_and_Atmospheric_Administration" title="National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</a>) from 1889 to 1894. Alongside his work, he was also an advocate for the <a href="/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States" title="Metrication in the United States">adoption of the metric system by the United States</a> and is the father of <a href="/wiki/Author_profiling" title="Author profiling">author profiling</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PSM_V37_D594_Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/PSM_V37_D594_Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall.jpg/220px-PSM_V37_D594_Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="309" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/PSM_V37_D594_Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall.jpg/330px-PSM_V37_D594_Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/PSM_V37_D594_Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall.jpg/440px-PSM_V37_D594_Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2075" data-file-height="2915" /></a><figcaption>Mendenhall in 1890</figcaption></figure> <p>Mendenhall was born in <a href="/wiki/Hanoverton,_Ohio" title="Hanoverton, Ohio">Hanoverton, Ohio</a>, to Stephen Mendenhall, a farmer and carriage-maker, and Mary Thomas. In 1852 the family moved to <a href="/wiki/Marlboro,_Ohio" title="Marlboro, Ohio">Marlboro</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Quaker" class="mw-redirect" title="Quaker">Quaker</a> community outside of <a href="/wiki/Akron,_Ohio" title="Akron, Ohio">Akron, Ohio</a>. His parents were strong <a href="/wiki/Abolitionist" class="mw-redirect" title="Abolitionist">abolitionists</a> and frequently opened their home to escaped slaves heading north along the <a href="/wiki/Underground_Railroad" title="Underground Railroad">Underground Railroad</a>. Mendenhall became principal of the local primary school in 1858. He formalized his teaching qualifications at <a href="/wiki/National_Normal_University" title="National Normal University">National Normal University</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 1861 with an <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Instructor_Normalis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Instructor Normalis (page does not exist)">Instructor Normalis</a></i> degree.<sup id="cite_ref-ANB_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ANB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While living in <a href="/wiki/Columbus,_Ohio" title="Columbus, Ohio">Columbus, Ohio</a>, he married Susan Allan Marple in 1870. The couple had one child, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Elwood_Mendenhall" title="Charles Elwood Mendenhall">Charles Elwood Mendenhall</a> (1872–1935), teacher and chairman of the physics department at <a href="/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison" title="University of Wisconsin–Madison">University of Wisconsin–Madison</a> for 34 years.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He taught at a number of schools in <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a> including <a href="/wiki/Central_High_School_(Columbus,_Ohio)" title="Central High School (Columbus, Ohio)">Central High School</a> in Columbus,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> gaining an impressive reputation as a teacher and educator. In 1873, although he lacked conventional academic credentials, he was appointed professor of <a href="/wiki/Physics" title="Physics">physics</a> and mechanics at the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College. The college ultimately became <a href="/wiki/Ohio_State_University" title="Ohio State University">Ohio State University</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-ANB_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ANB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mendenhall being the first member of the original faculty.<sup id="cite_ref-wosu1_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wosu1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was later awarded the first ever honorary Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1878.<sup id="cite_ref-wosu1_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wosu1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ThomasCMendenhallwithStudentsJapan1880.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/ThomasCMendenhallwithStudentsJapan1880.jpg/220px-ThomasCMendenhallwithStudentsJapan1880.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/ThomasCMendenhallwithStudentsJapan1880.jpg/330px-ThomasCMendenhallwithStudentsJapan1880.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/ThomasCMendenhallwithStudentsJapan1880.jpg/440px-ThomasCMendenhallwithStudentsJapan1880.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="718" /></a><figcaption>Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, the first physics teacher in Tokyo, Japan with his interpreter Kikuchi (right) and grad students <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1880</span></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1878,<sup id="cite_ref-ANB_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ANB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on the recommendation of <a href="/wiki/Edward_S._Morse" title="Edward S. Morse">Edward S. Morse</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he was recruited to help the modernization of <a href="/wiki/Meiji_Era" class="mw-redirect" title="Meiji Era">Meiji Era</a> Japan as one of the <i><a href="/wiki/O-yatoi_gaikokujin" class="mw-redirect" title="O-yatoi gaikokujin">o-yatoi gaikokujin</a></i> (hired foreigners), serving as visiting professor of physics at <a href="/wiki/Tokyo_Imperial_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Tokyo Imperial University">Tokyo Imperial University</a>. In connection with this appointment, he founded a <a href="/wiki/Meteorology" title="Meteorology">meteorological</a> observatory to make systematic observations during his residence in Japan. From measurements using a <a href="/wiki/Kater%27s_pendulum" title="Kater's pendulum">Kater's pendulum</a> of the force of <a href="/wiki/Gravity" title="Gravity">gravity</a> at sea level and at the summit of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Fuji" title="Mount Fuji">Mount Fuji</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mendenhall deduced a value for the mass of the Earth that agreed closely with estimates that <a href="/wiki/Francis_Baily" title="Francis Baily">Francis Baily</a> had made in England by another method. He also made a series of elaborate measurements of the wavelengths of the solar spectrum by means of a large <a href="/wiki/Spectrometer" title="Spectrometer">spectrometer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also became interested in earthquakes while in Japan, and was one of the founders of the <a href="/wiki/Seismological_Society_of_Japan" title="Seismological Society of Japan">Seismological Society of Japan</a> (SSJ).<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his time in Japan, he also gave public lectures on various scientific topics to general audiences in temples and in theaters.<sup id="cite_ref-ANB_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ANB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Returning to Ohio in 1881, Mendenhall was instrumental in developing the Ohio State Meteorological Service. He devised a system of weather signals for display on railroad trains. This method became general throughout the United States and Canada. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mendenhall_gravimeter_pendulums.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Mendenhall_gravimeter_pendulums.jpg/220px-Mendenhall_gravimeter_pendulums.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Mendenhall_gravimeter_pendulums.jpg/330px-Mendenhall_gravimeter_pendulums.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Mendenhall_gravimeter_pendulums.jpg/440px-Mendenhall_gravimeter_pendulums.jpg 2x" data-file-width="712" data-file-height="679" /></a><figcaption>Mendenhall Gravimeter Pendulums</figcaption></figure><p> He became professor at the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Signal_Corps" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Signal Corps">U.S. Signal Corps</a> in 1884, introducing of systematic observations of <a href="/wiki/Lightning" title="Lightning">lightning</a>, and investigating methods for determining ground temperatures. He was the first to establish stations in the United States for the systematic observation of earthquake phenomena. Resigning in 1886, Mendenhall took up the presidency of the <a href="/wiki/Rose_Polytechnic_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Rose Polytechnic Institute">Rose Polytechnic Institute</a> in <a href="/wiki/Terre_Haute,_Indiana" title="Terre Haute, Indiana">Terre Haute, Indiana</a> before becoming superintendent of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Coast_and_Geodetic_Survey" title="United States Coast and Geodetic Survey">United States Coast and Geodetic Survey</a> in 1889. During his time as superintendent, he issued the <a href="/wiki/Mendenhall_Order" title="Mendenhall Order">Mendenhall Order</a> and oversaw the consequent transition of the United States's <a href="/wiki/Weights_and_measures" class="mw-redirect" title="Weights and measures">weights and measures</a> from the customary system, based on that of <a href="/wiki/Imperial_unit" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial unit">England</a>, to the <a href="/wiki/Metric_system" title="Metric system">metric system</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mendenhall remained a strong proponent for the official adoption of the metric system all his life. Also, as superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, he was also responsible for defining the exact national boundary between <a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a> and Canada. The <a href="/wiki/Mendenhall_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Mendenhall Valley">Mendenhall Valley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mendenhall_Glacier" title="Mendenhall Glacier">Glacier</a> in <a href="/wiki/Juneau,_Alaska" title="Juneau, Alaska">Juneau, Alaska</a> was named for him in 1892.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Geodetic_Survey_House_in_Sitka,_Alaska.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Geodetic_Survey_House_in_Sitka%2C_Alaska.jpg/220px-Geodetic_Survey_House_in_Sitka%2C_Alaska.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="289" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Geodetic_Survey_House_in_Sitka%2C_Alaska.jpg/330px-Geodetic_Survey_House_in_Sitka%2C_Alaska.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Geodetic_Survey_House_in_Sitka%2C_Alaska.jpg/440px-Geodetic_Survey_House_in_Sitka%2C_Alaska.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1794" data-file-height="2355" /></a><figcaption>This Geodetic Survey House in Sitka, Alaska was used by Dr. Mendenhall and Surveyors working to map Alaska.</figcaption></figure> <p>Mendenhall invented the portable Mendenhall <a href="/wiki/Gravimeter" class="mw-redirect" title="Gravimeter">Gravimeter</a> in 1890 while he was superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey,<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and at that time it provided the most accurate relative measurements of the local <a href="/wiki/Gravitational_field" title="Gravitational field">gravitational field</a> of the Earth. The gravimeters were used at over 340 survey stations across the US and around the world including Germany, the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Java" title="Java">Java</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bahamas" class="mw-redirect" title="Bahamas">Bahamas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Republic" title="Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Panama" title="Panama">Panama</a>, Canada, and Mexico. The swing of the <a href="/wiki/Pendulum" title="Pendulum">pendulum</a> was more regular than the most accurate clocks of the era, and as the "world's best clock" it was used by <a href="/wiki/Albert_A._Michelson" title="Albert A. Michelson">Albert A. Michelson</a> to measure the <a href="/wiki/Speed_of_light" title="Speed of light">speed of light</a>, for which he won a Nobel Prize in 1907.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An early model of the original 1890s Mendenhall Gravimeter is on display at the <a href="/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution" title="Smithsonian Institution">Smithsonian Institution</a> in Washington, D.C.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PSM_V85_D521_Group_photograph_of_herman_helmholtz_and_academic_friends.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/PSM_V85_D521_Group_photograph_of_herman_helmholtz_and_academic_friends.png/220px-PSM_V85_D521_Group_photograph_of_herman_helmholtz_and_academic_friends.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/PSM_V85_D521_Group_photograph_of_herman_helmholtz_and_academic_friends.png/330px-PSM_V85_D521_Group_photograph_of_herman_helmholtz_and_academic_friends.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/PSM_V85_D521_Group_photograph_of_herman_helmholtz_and_academic_friends.png/440px-PSM_V85_D521_Group_photograph_of_herman_helmholtz_and_academic_friends.png 2x" data-file-width="2719" data-file-height="1580" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Hermann_von_Helmholtz" title="Hermann von Helmholtz">Hermann von Helmholtz</a> and his wife (seated), <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Kronecker" title="Hugo Kronecker">Hugo Kronecker</a> (left), <a href="/wiki/Henry_Villard" title="Henry Villard">Henry Villard</a>(center) and Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (right)—taken at the studio of <a href="/wiki/Mathew_Brady" title="Mathew Brady">Mathew Brady</a> in New York City, 1893</figcaption></figure> <p>Mendenhall was appointed president of the <a href="/wiki/Worcester_Polytechnic_Institute" title="Worcester Polytechnic Institute">Worcester Polytechnic Institute</a> from 1894 until 1901, when he emigrated to Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-ANB_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ANB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He returned to the United States in 1912. He was appointed to the board of trustees of the Ohio State University in 1919 and is remembered for his successful efforts to close the College of Homeopathic Medicine and his unsuccessful effort to limit the capacity of <a href="/wiki/Ohio_Stadium" title="Ohio Stadium">Ohio Stadium</a> to 45,000 seats, contending that it would never be able to fill to its design capacity of 63,000 seats.<sup id="cite_ref-wosu1_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wosu1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He continued to serve as a trustee until his death at <a href="/wiki/Ravenna,_Ohio" title="Ravenna, Ohio">Ravenna, Ohio</a> in 1924.<sup id="cite_ref-ANB_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ANB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was buried at <a href="/wiki/Forest_Hill_Cemetery_(Madison,_Wisconsin)" title="Forest Hill Cemetery (Madison, Wisconsin)">Forest Hill Cemetery</a> in Madison, Wisconsin. </p><p>His portrait is currently part of the Smithsonian Institution <a href="/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery_(United_States)" title="National Portrait Gallery (United States)">National Portrait Gallery</a> in Washington, D.C.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was painted by his former pupil <a href="/wiki/Annie_Ware_Sabine_Siebert" class="mw-redirect" title="Annie Ware Sabine Siebert">Annie Ware Sabine Siebert</a>, who was the first recipient of a Master of Arts degree from The Ohio State University in 1886, and one of the first women to earn an architecture degree from the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> (MIT) in 1888.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://library.osu.edu/buckeye-stroll/locations/siebert-hall">[2]</a> A portrait by famous artist and Columbus, Ohio native <a href="/wiki/George_Bellows" title="George Bellows">George Bellows</a> was commissioned by the Ohio State University in 1913.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Graves_of_Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall_(1841%E2%80%931924),_Charles_Elwood_Mendenhall_(1872%E2%80%931935),_and_Dorothy_Reed_Mendenhall_(1874%E2%80%931964)_at_Forest_Hill_Cemetery_(Madison,_Wisconsin)_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Graves_of_Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall_%281841%E2%80%931924%29%2C_Charles_Elwood_Mendenhall_%281872%E2%80%931935%29%2C_and_Dorothy_Reed_Mendenhall_%281874%E2%80%931964%29_at_Forest_Hill_Cemetery_%28Madison%2C_Wisconsin%29_1.jpg/200px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Graves_of_Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall_%281841%E2%80%931924%29%2C_Charles_Elwood_Mendenhall_%281872%E2%80%931935%29%2C_and_Dorothy_Reed_Mendenhall_%281874%E2%80%931964%29_at_Forest_Hill_Cemetery_%28Madison%2C_Wisconsin%29_1.jpg/300px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Graves_of_Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall_%281841%E2%80%931924%29%2C_Charles_Elwood_Mendenhall_%281872%E2%80%931935%29%2C_and_Dorothy_Reed_Mendenhall_%281874%E2%80%931964%29_at_Forest_Hill_Cemetery_%28Madison%2C_Wisconsin%29_1.jpg/400px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2591" data-file-height="2783" /></a><figcaption>Mendenhall's grave (third from left) at Forest Hill Cemetery</figcaption></figure> <p>The largest collection of images, historical documents and handwritten material relating to Thomas Corwin Mendenhall is with Mendenhall family member documentary filmmaker Sybil Drew.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Work_on_stylometry">Work on stylometry</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Work on stylometry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1887 Mendenhall published one of the earliest attempts at <a href="/wiki/Stylometry" title="Stylometry">stylometry</a> also known as author profiling, the quantitative analysis of writing style.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prompted by a suggestion made by the English mathematician <a href="/wiki/Augustus_De_Morgan" title="Augustus De Morgan">Augustus De Morgan</a> in 1851, Mendenhall attempted to characterize the style of different authors through the <a href="/wiki/Frequency_distribution" class="mw-redirect" title="Frequency distribution">frequency distribution</a> of words of various lengths. In this article Mendenhall mentioned the possible relevance of this technique to the <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_authorship_question" title="Shakespeare authorship question">Shakespeare authorship question</a>, and several years later the idea was picked up by a supporter of the <a href="/wiki/Baconian_theory_of_Shakespeare_authorship" title="Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship">theory</a> that <a href="/wiki/Sir_Francis_Bacon" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Francis Bacon">Sir Francis Bacon</a> was the true author of the works usually attributed to Shakespeare. He paid for a team of two people to undertake the counting required, but the results did not appear to support the theory.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For comparison, in 1901 Mendenhall also had works by <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe" title="Christopher Marlowe">Christopher Marlowe</a> analysed,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and proponents of the <a href="/wiki/Marlovian_theory_of_Shakespeare_authorship" title="Marlovian theory of Shakespeare authorship">Marlovian theory of Shakespeare authorship</a> welcomed his finding that "in the characteristic curve of his plays Christopher Marlowe agrees with Shakespeare about as well as Shakespeare agrees with himself."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honors">Honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mendenhall_Glacier,_Juneau,_Alaska_LCCN2010630416.tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Mendenhall_Glacier%2C_Juneau%2C_Alaska_LCCN2010630416.tif/lossy-page1-220px-Mendenhall_Glacier%2C_Juneau%2C_Alaska_LCCN2010630416.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Mendenhall_Glacier%2C_Juneau%2C_Alaska_LCCN2010630416.tif/lossy-page1-330px-Mendenhall_Glacier%2C_Juneau%2C_Alaska_LCCN2010630416.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Mendenhall_Glacier%2C_Juneau%2C_Alaska_LCCN2010630416.tif/lossy-page1-440px-Mendenhall_Glacier%2C_Juneau%2C_Alaska_LCCN2010630416.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7240" data-file-height="5433" /></a><figcaption>Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Honorary_degree" title="Honorary degree">Honorary Ph.D.</a> from The Ohio State University (1878)<sup id="cite_ref-wosu1_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wosu1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Honorary Ph.D. from <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> (1887)</li> <li>Member of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_National_Academy_of_Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="United States National Academy of Sciences">National Academy of Sciences</a> (1887)<sup id="cite_ref-ANB_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ANB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/President_of_the_American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science" title="President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science">President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science</a> (1889)<sup id="cite_ref-ANB_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ANB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Elected member of the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> (1891)<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Mendenhall_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Mendenhall Valley">Mendenhall Valley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mendenhall_Glacier" title="Mendenhall Glacier">Mendenhall Glacier</a> in <a href="/wiki/Juneau,_Alaska" title="Juneau, Alaska">Juneau, Alaska</a> were named for him (1892)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Elected a member of the <a href="/wiki/American_Antiquarian_Society" title="American Antiquarian Society">American Antiquarian Society</a> (1895)<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Elected member of the <a href="/wiki/American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a> (1899)<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cullum_Geographical_Medal" title="Cullum Geographical Medal">Cullum Geographical Medal</a> of the <a href="/wiki/American_Geographical_Society" title="American Geographical Society">American Geographical Society</a> (1901)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Sacred_Treasure" title="Order of the Sacred Treasure">Order of the Sacred Treasure</a>, Japan (1911)<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Honorary Ph.D. from <a href="/wiki/Case_Western_Reserve_University" title="Case Western Reserve University">Case Western Reserve University</a> (1912)<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_Medal" title="Franklin Medal">Franklin Medal</a> (1918)</li> <li>Mendenhall Laboratory on the campus of the Ohio State University is named for him<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFMendenhall,_T._C.1887" class="citation book cs1">Mendenhall, T. C. (1887). <i>A Century of Electricity</i>. New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Century+of+Electricity&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Houghton%2C+Mifflin+and+Co.&rft.date=1887&rft.au=Mendenhall%2C+T.+C.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThomas+Corwin+Mendenhall" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMendenhall1887" class="citation journal cs1">Mendenhall, T. C. (1887). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://zenodo.org/record/1448355">"The Characteristic Curves of Composition"</a>. <i>Science</i>. <b>IX</b> (214): 237–248. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.ns-9.214s.237">10.1126/science.ns-9.214s.237</a>. <a href="/wiki/PMID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="PMID (identifier)">PMID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17736020">17736020</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Science&rft.atitle=The+Characteristic+Curves+of+Composition&rft.volume=IX&rft.issue=214&rft.pages=237-248&rft.date=1887&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1126%2Fscience.ns-9.214s.237&rft_id=info%3Apmid%2F17736020&rft.aulast=Mendenhall&rft.aufirst=T.+C.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fzenodo.org%2Frecord%2F1448355&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThomas+Corwin+Mendenhall" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMendenhall1901" class="citation journal cs1">Mendenhall, T. C. (1901). "A Mechanical Solution of a Literary Problem". <i>The Popular Science Monthly</i>. <b>LX</b> (7): 97–105.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Popular+Science+Monthly&rft.atitle=A+Mechanical+Solution+of+a+Literary+Problem&rft.volume=LX&rft.issue=7&rft.pages=97-105&rft.date=1901&rft.aulast=Mendenhall&rft.aufirst=T.+C.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThomas+Corwin+Mendenhall" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin and Drew, Sybil (2017) "An American Scientist In Japan 1878-1881 And Japan Revisited After Thirty Years" <i>Jan & Brooklyn</i> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1544897066" title="Special:BookSources/978-1544897066">978-1544897066</a></li> <li>Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin and Drew, Sybil (2017) "The Alaska Boundary Line And Twenty Unsettled Miles: The History Of St. Croix River" <i>Jan & Brooklyn</i> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1544637891" title="Special:BookSources/978-1544637891">978-1544637891</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohwarren/Places/nnu1893a.htm">"National Normal University, 1893 Alumnal Roster, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio"</a>. <i>rootsweb.ancestry.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 9,</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=search.amphilsoc.org&rft.atitle=APS+Member+History&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.amphilsoc.org%2Fmemhist%2Fsearch%3Fcreator%3DThomas%2BC.%2BMendenhall%26title%3D%26subject%3D%26subdiv%3D%26mem%3D%26year%3D%26year-max%3D%26dead%3D%26keyword%3D%26smode%3Dadvanced&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThomas+Corwin+Mendenhall" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Alexander (1926)</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Obituary</dt></dl> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Science_(journal)" title="Science (journal)">Science</a></i>, July 11, 1924</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAlexander1926" class="citation journal cs1">Alexander, W. H. (1926). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/2311/1/V26N04_183.pdf">"Report of the thirtysixth annual meeting of the Ohio Academy of Science"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Ohio Journal of Science</i>. <b>26</b> (4): 185–186.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Ohio+Journal+of+Science&rft.atitle=Report+of+the+thirtysixth+annual+meeting+of+the+Ohio+Academy+of+Science&rft.volume=26&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=185-186&rft.date=1926&rft.aulast=Alexander&rft.aufirst=W.+H.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fkb.osu.edu%2Fdspace%2Fbitstream%2F1811%2F2311%2F1%2FV26N04_183.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThomas+Corwin+Mendenhall" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCrew1934" class="citation journal cs1">Crew, H. (1934). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/mendenhall-t-c.pdf">"Thomas Corwin Mendenhall"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences</i>. <b>16</b>: 331–351.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Biographical+Memoirs+of+the+National+Academy+of+Sciences&rft.atitle=Thomas+Corwin+Mendenhall&rft.volume=16&rft.pages=331-351&rft.date=1934&rft.aulast=Crew&rft.aufirst=H.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasonline.org%2Fpublications%2Fbiographical-memoirs%2Fmemoir-pdfs%2Fmendenhall-t-c.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThomas+Corwin+Mendenhall" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJoncich1996" class="citation journal cs1">Joncich, Geraldine (1996). "Scientists and the Schools of the Nineteenth Century: The Case of American Physicists". <i>American Quarterly</i>. <b>18</b> (4): 667–685. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2711389">10.2307/2711389</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2711389">2711389</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=American+Quarterly&rft.atitle=Scientists+and+the+Schools+of+the+Nineteenth+Century%3A+The+Case+of+American+Physicists&rft.volume=18&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=667-685&rft.date=1996&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F2711389&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F2711389%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Joncich&rft.aufirst=Geraldine&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThomas+Corwin+Mendenhall" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilliams1975" class="citation journal cs1">Williams, C. B. (1975). "Mendenhall's studies of word-length distribution in the works of Shakespeare and Bacon". <i>Biometrika</i>. <b>62</b> (1): 207–212. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fbiomet%2F62.1.207">10.1093/biomet/62.1.207</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Biometrika&rft.atitle=Mendenhall%27s+studies+of+word-length+distribution+in+the+works+of+Shakespeare+and+Bacon&rft.volume=62&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=207-212&rft.date=1975&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Fbiomet%2F62.1.207&rft.aulast=Williams&rft.aufirst=C.+B.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThomas+Corwin+Mendenhall" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Rubinger, Richard (1989) <i>American Scientist in Early Meiji Japan: The Autobiographical Notes of Thomas C. Mendenhall</i>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8248-1177-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-8248-1177-1">0-8248-1177-1</a></li> <li>Carey, C. W. (1999) "Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin", <i><a href="/wiki/American_National_Biography" title="American National Biography">American National Biography</a></i>, Oxford University Press, <b>15</b>: 297-298, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-520635-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-520635-5">0-19-520635-5</a></li> <li>[Anon.] (2001) "Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin", <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" title="Encyclopædia Britannica">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>, Deluxe CDROM edition</li> <li>Hebra, A. & Hebra, A. J. (2003) <i>Measure for Measure: The Story of Imperial, Metric, and Other Units</i> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8018-7072-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-8018-7072-0">0-8018-7072-0</a></li> <li>Drew, Sybil (2016) <i>Self Styled Genius: The Life of Thomas Corwin Mendenhall</i> Jan & Brooklyn <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0692790571" title="Special:BookSources/978-0692790571">978-0692790571</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Corwin_Mendenhall&action=edit&section=8" 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Foote">Paul D. Foote</a> (1933)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Compton" title="Arthur Compton">Arthur Compton</a> (1934)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_W._Wood" title="Robert W. Wood">Robert W. Wood</a> (1935)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Floyd_K._Richtmyer" title="Floyd K. Richtmyer">Floyd K. Richtmyer</a> (1936)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrison_M._Randall" title="Harrison M. Randall">Harrison M. Randall</a> (1937)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyman_James_Briggs" title="Lyman James Briggs">Lyman James Briggs</a> (1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Torrence_Tate_Sr." title="John Torrence Tate Sr.">John Torrence Tate Sr.</a> (1939)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Zeleny" title="John Zeleny">John Zeleny</a> (1940)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_B._Pegram" title="George B. Pegram">George B. Pegram</a> (1941)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_W._Stewart" title="George W. Stewart">George Stewart</a> (1941)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Percy_Williams_Bridgman" title="Percy Williams Bridgman">Percy Williams Bridgman</a> (1942)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_W._Hull" title="Albert W. Hull">Albert W. Hull</a> (1943)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Jeffrey_Dempster" title="Arthur Jeffrey Dempster">Arthur Jeffrey Dempster</a> (1944)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvey_Fletcher" title="Harvey Fletcher">Harvey Fletcher</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Condon" title="Edward Condon">Edward Condon</a> (1946)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_Alvin_DuBridge" title="Lee Alvin DuBridge">Lee Alvin DuBridge</a> (1947)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer" title="J. Robert Oppenheimer">J. Robert Oppenheimer</a> (1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Wheeler_Loomis" title="Francis Wheeler Loomis">Francis Wheeler Loomis</a> (1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isidor_Isaac_Rabi" title="Isidor Isaac Rabi">Isidor Isaac Rabi</a> (1950)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1951–1975</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Christian_Lauritsen" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Christian Lauritsen">Charles Christian Lauritsen</a> (1951)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hasbrouck_Van_Vleck" title="John Hasbrouck Van Vleck">John Hasbrouck Van Vleck</a> (1952)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enrico_Fermi" title="Enrico Fermi">Enrico Fermi</a> (1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Bethe" title="Hans Bethe">H. Bethe</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raymond_Thayer_Birge" title="Raymond Thayer Birge">Raymond Thayer Birge</a> (1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugene_Wigner" title="Eugene Wigner">E. Wigner</a> (1956)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_DeWolf_Smyth" title="Henry DeWolf Smyth">Henry DeWolf Smyth</a> (1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesse_Beams" title="Jesse Beams">Jesse Beams</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Uhlenbeck" title="George Uhlenbeck">George Uhlenbeck</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Weisskopf" title="Victor Weisskopf">Victor Weisskopf</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Seitz" title="Frederick Seitz">Frederick Seitz</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_V._Houston" title="William V. Houston">William V. 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