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John Andreas Widtsoe was born on January 31, 1872, in Norway.
* He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1880.
* He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1894.
* He earned a Ph.D. in agricultural chemistry from Göttingen University in Germany in 1899.
* He served as president of Utah State Agricultural College from 1907 to 1916.
* He served as president of the University of Utah from 1916 to 1921.
* He was called as an apostle in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1921.
* He served as an apostle until his death in 1952.
* He was a prolific writer and author of several books on science and religion.