Arnold Henry Guyot

Arnold Henry Guyot (1807 to 1884) was a Swiss-American geologist and geographer, born at Boudevilliers near Neuchâtel. He took his doctorate at Berlin in 1835 and, at the suggestion of his lifelong friend Louis Agassiz, studied the Swiss glaciers in 1838, being the first to point out several observations on glacial motion and structure, such as the faster flow of the centre than the sides and the ribboned structure of the ice. In 1839 he became professor of history and physical geography at the College of Neuchâtel, and when that institution was suspended in 1848 he emigrated to the United States, settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where his Lowell Institute lectures were published as Earth and Man. In 1854 he became professor of physical geography and geology at Princeton University, a post he kept until his death, and he founded the museum at Princeton.