Description: (US Physicist and Meteorologist Remembered for His Pioneering Research on Gravity Measurement)
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall was a distinguished American physicist and meteorologist, recognized for his substantial impact in academia and government roles. He was the inaugural professor at Ohio State University and later led the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Mendenhall was a proponent of introducing the metric system in the United States and achieved significant progress in author profiling. His career underscored his proficiency and commitment to the fields of physics, meteorology, and education.