Edward Salisbury Dana (November 16, 1849 – June 16, 1935) was an American mineralogist and physicist.

He made important contributions to the study of minerals, especially in the field of crystallography.

[1] He graduated from Yale College in 1870, where he had been a member of Scroll and Key, and then after two years with George J. Brush at the Sheffield Scientific School, spent another two years studying in Heidelberg and Vienna, specializing in crystal optics and crystallography.

Dana became an editor of the American Journal of Science in 1875 and continued to direct it until 1926.

[2] He was an elected member of scientific societies in Austria, Mexico, Russia, England, Scotland, and across the United States.