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Fred Schaefer  

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  • Fred Schaefer was a founding member of the department of geography at the University of Iowa, remaining there until his death in 1953. Schaefer is revered as a pioneer of the “quantitative revolution” in geography, for providing the greatest philosophical impetus for a scientific geography, although he died before many of its subsequent adherents met him. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Schaefer, Fred (1904–1953)]

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