Harry Clinton Gossard (1884–1954) was an American educator and geometer. He is credited with the discovery of a then unknown triangle center in 1916 to which

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assigned the name Gossard perspector in 1998. After receiving his Ph.D. from

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in 1912, Gossard taught at

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(1912–1916), the

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(1916–18), University of Oklahoma (1918–19),

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(1921–25), and Nebraska Wesleyan University (1926–31). During the period 1931 to 1939, Gossard was president of New Mexico Normal University (now New Mexico Highlands University), and during 1939 to 1950, he was dean of Eastern New Mexico College (now

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). He worked for the US State Department during the last four years of his life.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gossard, Harry Clinton 1884 births 20th-century American mathematicians 1954 deaths Johns Hopkins University alumni University of Oklahoma faculty United States Naval Academy faculty University of Wyoming faculty New Mexico Highlands University faculty Eastern New Mexico University faculty