Charles Hyde Warren

Charles Hyde Warren (September 27, 1876 – August 16, 1950) was an American geologist and academic administrator. He was a professor and the chair of geology at Yale University dean at the Sheffield Scientific School.

Early life Warren was born on September 27, 1876, in Watertown, Connecticut. His parents were Frances Marie (née Hyde) and Charles Alanson Warren. He also was involved in research and various chemical, manufacturing, and mining business concerns. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1928. He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society of America. He was the first graduate member of Yale's Connecticut Alpha chapter of Tau Beta Pi, an engineering honor society.

After having a heart attack on August 5, 1950, he was hospitalized. He died of a heart attack on August 16, 1950, at the Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington, Connecticut. He was buried in Watertown, Connecticut.

Publications

A Manual of Determinative Mineralogy. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1921.