Charles R. Bentley

{{Short description|American glaciologist and geophysicist}}

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Charles Raymond Bentley (December 23, 1929 – August 19, 2017) was an American glaciologist and geophysicist, born in Rochester, New York. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Mount Bentley and the Bentley Subglacial Trench in Antarctica are named after him.[http://www.mapplanet.com/?do=loc&country=_A&adm1=05&loc=20000987 Bentley Subglacial Trench]. MapPlanet. In 1957, he and a handful of other scientists including Mario Giovinetto set out on an expedition across West Antarctica in tracked vehicles to make the first measurements of the ice sheet.{{cite web |last=Rejcek |first=Peter |authorlink= |title=Science hits the road |work=POLAR-PALOOZA brings polar research and issues to the public with traveling show |publisher=The Antarctic Sun |date=December 20, 2007 |url=http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1298 |accessdate=2008-01-13}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/science/earth/charles-r-bentley-87-pioneer-of-polar-science-is-dead.html|title=Charles R. Bentley, 87, Pioneer of Polar Science, Is Dead|first=William|last=Grimes|date=25 August 2017|accessdate=27 August 2017|work=NYTimes.com}}

He was awarded the Seligman Crystal by the International Glaciological Society in 1990.{{cite web|url=https://www.igsoc.org/awards/seligman/b|title=The Seligman Crystal|publisher=International Glaciological Society|accessdate=30 November 2016}}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He died on August 19, 2017, at the age of 87 in Oakland, California.{{cite web |url=http://lists.cryolist.org/pipermail/cryolist-cryolist.org/2017-August/002068.html |title=Charles Bentley death |last=Anandakrishnan |first=Sridhar |publisher=CRYOLIST |date=2017-08-22 |access-date=2017-08-23 |archive-date=2021-07-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715024033/http://lists.cryolist.org/pipermail/cryolist-cryolist.org/2017-August/002068.html |url-status=dead }}