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_id: 4572
data:
  activity:
    - areaCode: n-us-ma
      characterisation: noc
      end: 1912
      geonamesId: 4931972
      place: Cambridge
      professionOrType: scl
      start: 1885
  biographicalInformation: '1861 - 1912'
  externalId:
    - http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp01882225
    - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_Lawrence_Rotch
  gender: 1002
  name: 'Rotch, Abbott Lawrence'
  note: '6 January 1861 (Boston) - 7 April 1912 (Milton, Mass.). Massachusetts Institute of Technology class of 1884. American meteorologist and founder of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, built using his private funds the year he graduated; he bequeathed it to Harvard with an endowment. Harvard disassociated itself from the observatory in 1971, but kept the endowment.'
  type: per
  variants:
    - 'Rotch, A. Lawrence'
meta:
  history:
    - timestamp: 2014-11-19T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2017-01-29T01:11:36
    - timestamp: 2017-01-29T01:25:17