Roswell H. (Roswell Hill) Johnson

Born in Buffalo, New York, in 1877, Roswell Hill Johnson was an American biologist, educator, and writer. He studied at Brown and Harvard and also did advanced work at Chicago and Wisconsin, building a career that combined research with teaching.

Johnson worked in academic science and taught at several institutions, including the University of Pittsburgh. He wrote on subjects such as evolution, heredity, and human relationships, aiming to explain scientific ideas to a broader public as well as to students.

He is also remembered for his connection to the early twentieth-century eugenics movement. That part of his work is important to note today because eugenics has been thoroughly rejected as bad science and as a source of serious social harm. Johnson died in 1967.