George Hunt Barton (1852–1933) was an American geologist, arctic explorer, and college professor. He was an alumnus and faculty member in geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, served as the director of the Teachers' School of Science in Boston and was the founding president of the Boston Children's Museum. He was an explorer of Greenland with Robert E. Peary in 1896, and in 1916 was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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8 July 1852 Sudbury, Massachusetts
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25 November 1933 (aged 81)
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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