Herbert Eugene Merwin (20 February 20 1878, Newton, Kansas – 29 January 1963, Washington, D.C.) was an American mineralogist and petrologist.
[1][2] Merwin grew up in Hensonville, New York after moving there with his family when he was two years old.
[1] He then studied at Harvard University, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1907 and his Ph.D. in 1911.
[3] He became in 1909 a staff member of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C.,[1] and was employed there until his retirement in 1945.
[1] He was president in 1931 of the Mineralogical Society of America, whose Roebling Medal he received in 1949.