William Harmon Niles (1838-1910)
William Harmon Niles, Professor of Geology & Geography at MIT
He studied studied under Louis Agassiz at Harvard and became Professor of Geology and Geography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1871 to 1902; President of the Boston Natural History Society from 1892 to 1897; and, head of the Department of Geology at Wellesley College since 1888. He was a Resident Fellow of the American Academy of Sciences and one of the first explorers to climb the mountains of the Yoho area where Mount Niles in British Columbia is named for him.
