| LC control no. | n 50043031 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920 |
| Variant(s) | Lyman, Benj. Smith (Benjamin Smith), 1835-1920 Lyman, B. S. (Benjamin Smith), 1835-1920 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1835 |
| Death date | 1920 |
| Field of activity | Geology Geological surveys Japanese language--Morphophonemics |
| Profession or occupation | Geologists Mining engineers Japanese language researcher |
| Found in | Folds and faults in Pennsylvania anthracite-beds, 1895: cover (Benjamin Smith Lyman, Philadelphia, Pa.) OCLC, May 19, 2008 (hdg.: Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920; usages: Benjamin Smith Lyman, Benj. Smith Lyman, B.S. Lyman) Wikipedia, May 19, 2008 (Benjamin Smith Lyman, b. 1835, Northampton, Mass.; d. 1920; American mining engineer; in 1870 he surveyed oil fields for the Public Works Dept. of the govt. of India; from 1873-79, he was chief geologist and mining engineer to the Japanese govt.; asst. on the Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 1887-95) Irregular phonological marking of Japanese compounds, 2022, ©2022: title page (Benjamin Smith Lyman) page 4 of cover (an American geologist and mining engineer, worked in Japan in the 1870s, pursued research on the Japanese language as a sideline; his groundbreaking study of the morphophonemic alternations known as rendaku includes a statement of now known as Lyman's Law) |
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