Atwater may refer to:
Places
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Atwater, California
Atwater is a city on State Route 99 in Merced County, California, United States. Atwater is west-northwest of Merced, at an elevation of . The population as of the 2020 census was 31,970, up from 28,168 in 2010.
Geography
Atwater is in norther ...
, a city in Merced County, California
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Atwater Village, Los Angeles, a neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles in Los Angeles County, California
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Atwater, Georgia
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Atwater, Illinois
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Atwater, Minnesota
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Atwater Township, Portage County, Ohio
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Atwater (CDP), Ohio, a census-designated place in the township
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Atwater, Saskatchewan, a village in Saskatchewan, Canada
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Atwater, Wisconsin
Atwater is an unincorporated community located in the town of Chester, Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States. It was named Mill Creek until a settler from Atwater, Ohio
Atwater Township is one of the eighteen townships of Portage County, Ohio, ...
People with the surname
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Ann Atwater (1935–2016), American civil rights activist
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Barry Atwater (1918–1978), American actor
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Caleb Atwater
Caleb Atwater (December 1778 – March 13, 1867) was an American politician, historian, and early archaeologist in the state of Ohio. He served several terms as a state politician and was appointed as United States postmaster of Circleville, Ohio ...
(1778–1867), American politician, historian, and early archaeologist
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Dorence Atwater (1845–1910), American civil war soldier known for keeping the "Atwater List" of Union fatalities
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Edwin Atwater
Edwin Atwater (September 14, 1808 in Williston, Vermont – June 18, 1874 in Montreal) was a Canadian businessman, corporate director and municipal politician in Montreal.
Atwater immigrated to Lower Canada in 1830 settling in Montreal. He ...
(1808–1874), municipal alderman in Montreal for the district of Saint-Antoine
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Harry Atwater (born 1960), professor of physics at California Institute of Technology
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Helen W. Atwater (1876–1947), American author, home economist and editor
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Isaac Atwater (1818–1906), American jurist
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Jeff Atwater (born 1958), American politician
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Jeremiah Atwater
Jeremiah Atwater (December 27, 1773 – July 29, 1858) was notable as an educator, minister, and college president. Atwater became principal of the Addison County Grammar School in 1799 and, a year later, when the school became Middlebury Coll ...
(born 1773), American educator, minister, and President of Middlebury College
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John Atwater (died 1499), Irish politician
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Lee Atwater (1951–1991), American Republican political strategist
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Mary Meigs Atwater (1878-1956), American handweaver, author, founder of the Shuttle-craft Guild
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Reuben Atwater (1768–1831), American politician
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Richard M. Atwater
Richard Mead Atwater, Sr. (August 10, 1844 – 1922) was a chemist and public official in New Jersey and Pennsylvania involved in early scientific glass-making.
Early years
Atwater was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1844 into a Quaker ...
(1844–1922), American chemist
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Richard and Florence Atwater (1892–1948; 1899–1979), authors of the children's book ''Mr. Popper's Penguins''
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Steve Atwater (born 1966), former Denver Broncos and New York Jets Free Safety
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Tanya Atwater (born 1942), professor of geological sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara who specializes in plate tectonics
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Tony Atwater, president of Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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Wilbur Olin Atwater
Wilbur Olin Atwater (May 3, 1844 – September 22, 1907) was an American chemist known for his studies of human nutrition and metabolism, and is considered the father of modern nutrition research and education. He is credited with developing t ...
(1844–1907), American developer of the respiration calorimeter
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William Atwater (curator) (born 1945), Director of the U.S. Army Ordnance Museum in Maryland
Other
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Atwater (Montreal Metro), a station on the Green Line of the Montreal Metro
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Atwater Avenue, a street in Montreal
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Atwater Library of the Mechanics' Institute of Montreal, an independent library in Montreal operated by the Mechanics' Institute of Montreal
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Atwater Market, a public market in Montreal
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Atwater v. City of Lago Vista
''Atwater v. Lago Vista'', 532 U.S. 318 (2001), was a United States Supreme Court decision which held that a person's Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the subject is arrested for driving without a seatbelt. The court ruled that such ...
'', a United States Supreme Court case
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United States Penitentiary, Atwater, a prison near Atwater, California
* The
Atwater system for calculating the energy content of food (named after
Wilbur Olin Atwater
Wilbur Olin Atwater (May 3, 1844 – September 22, 1907) was an American chemist known for his studies of human nutrition and metabolism, and is considered the father of modern nutrition research and education. He is credited with developing t ...
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See also
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Attwater Attwater is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Henry Philemon Attwater (1854–1931), British-Canadian-American naturalist and conservationist
*Sam Attwater
Samuel Attwater (born 10 April 1986) is an English actor and singer ...
, a surname
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