Richard Hartshorne

In the war-time interruption from 1941 to 1945 he established and ran the Geography Division in the branch of Research and Analysis of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).

He was also awarded a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) from Clark University, April 17, 1971, and the Victoria medal from the Royal Geographical Society in 1984.

[3] Among his brothers was the prominent American philosopher Charles Hartshorne.It also Takes Note Of the Association and Inter-Relationship between the Phenomenon Resuliting from the Dynamic Interaction between Human beings and their Physical Environment.

The book itself became a standard in the field and remained in print for decades; the seventh edition was published in 2000.

His 1970 book The Academic Citizen: Selected Statements by Richard Hartshorne with introduction and notes by Mark Hoyt Ingraham,[5] contains various statements on academic issues, authored (in some cases, co-authored) by Hartshorne, from the late 1940s through the 1960s, his pre-emeritus years at the University of Wisconsin.