Frank Leverett

Frank Leverett (March 10, 1859 – November 15, 1943) was an American geologist who specialised in glaciology.

Frank Leverett was born on March 10, 1859, in Denmark, Iowa, and was descended from a family that emigrated from Boston, Lincolnshire in 1663.

Between 1909 and 1929 Leverett was a lecturer in glacial geology at the University of Michigan, the institution which awarded him an honorary degree of doctor of science in 1930.

He was elected a fellow of both the Geological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, becoming Vice President of the latter in 1928.

[1][2] He was an elected member of both the American Philosophical Society and the United States National Academy of Sciences.