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There are Wiess research chairs at Princeton and at Rice University in honor of Harry Carothers Wiess. (The Harry C. Wiess Professor Chair of Life Sciences is at Princeton University.) The Rice University Department of Earth Science is part of the Wiess School of Natural Sciences there. Originally the Geology Department, it was founded in 1952 with funds provided by Olga Keith Wiess in memory of her husband, Harry C. Wiess. Olga and her daughters, Elizabeth, Caroline and Margaret, also donated the funds to construct the Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories. Wiess College, aka Wiess Hall, is a dormitory at Rice University built in 1949, and named in honor of Harry Carothers Wiess, major contributor to Rice and member of its board of trustees until his death in 1948. His grandson, James Elkins III, currently serves on the Rice board of trustees. |
