Charles Raymond Bentley (December 23, 1929 – August 19, 2017) was an American

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and

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, born in

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. He was a professor emeritus at the

University of Wisconsin–Madison A university () is an educational institution, institution of higher education, higher (or Tertiary education, tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. Universities ty ...

Mount Bentley Mount Bentley () is a mountain (4,245 m) standing north of Mount Anderson in the main western ridge of the Sentinel Range, Antarctica. It was discovered by the Marie Byrd Land Traverse party, 1957–58, and named for Dr. Charles R. Bentle ...

and the Bentley Subglacial Trench in

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are named after him. In 1957, he and a handful of other scientists including

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set out on an expedition across

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to make the first measurements of the ice sheet. He was awarded the

Seligman Crystal The Seligman Crystal is an award of the International Glaciological Society. The prize is "awarded from time to time to one who has made an outstanding scientific contribution to glaciology so that the subject is now enriched" and named after Ger ...

by the

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in 1990. He died on August 19, 2017 at the age of 87 in

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References

External links

Oral History interview transcript for Charles R. Bentley on 6 August 2008, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
- Session I
Oral History interview transcript for Charles R. Bentley on 7 August 2008, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
- Session II 1929 births 2017 deaths American geophysicists American glaciologists American Antarctic scientists Marie Byrd Land explorers and scientists Phillips Academy alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty {{Glaciologist-stub