Theodore B. Comstock

Theodore Bryant Comstock (1849–1915) was an American explorer and geologist who was a professor of general and economic geology at Cornell University from 1875 to 1879, and a professor of mining engineering and physics at the University of Illinois from 1885 to 1889. He served as first president of the University of Arizona from 1894 to 1895. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from what is now Pennsylvania State University in 1868, a Bachelor of Science in 1870 and D.Sc. in 1886 from Cornell University.