Rodgers, John

(1773–1838) naval officer; born near Havre de Grace, Md. He served as a lieutenant in the undeclared war with France. He served in the Tripolitan War and briefly commanded the Mediterranean squadron (1805). He commanded the USS President in its defeat of the British Little Belt (1811) and became a popular hero. He performed effectively in the War of 1812 and was head of the Board of Naval Commissioners (1815–24, 1827–37).

Rodgers, John

(1812–82) naval officer; born near Havre de Grace, Md. (son of John Rodgers, 1773–1838). His naval career (1828–82) encompassed service in the Seminole War and the Civil War. He commanded the Asiatic Squadron (1870–72) and the Mare Island navy yard (1873–77). He was superintendent of the Naval Observatory (1877–82) and was the senior rear admiral on the retired list at the time of his death.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Rodgers, John

Born July 11, 1914, in Albany, N.Y. American geologist. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1962); president of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1969).

Rodgers became a professor of geology at Yale University in 1959. His principal works deal with the stratigraphy of the Lower Paleozoic and the structural geology of the Appalachians. He was named president of the Geological Society of America in 1970 and served as secretary-general of the commission on stratigraphy of the International Geological Congress from 1952 to 1960. Rodgers was the editor of Symposium on the Cambrian System (vols. 1–3, 1956–61). He became the editor of the American Journal of Science in 1954.

Rodgers was named a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1976.

WORKS

The Tectonics of the Appalachians. New York, 1970.
In Russian translation:
Osnovy stratigrafii. Moscow, 1962.

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