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Richard Hartshorne
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- Richard Hartshorne was an influential early- and mid-20th-century American geographer, best known for his aggressive promotion of chorology as the optimal way of examining landscapes and spatial distributions. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, he became a math major at Princeton University, completing his degree in 1920 after serving in World War I. Hartshorne then earned a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1924, taking courses from Ellen Semple, J. Paul Goode, and social ecologists such as Harlan Barrows. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Hartshorne, Richard (1899–1992)]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Richard_Hartshorne
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