Peter Gould was an Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Geography at Penn State University. Throughout his tenure at Penn State University, Gould received many awards including the Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud

Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud

The Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud established in 1991, it is the highest award that can be gained in the field of geography. The award is modelled on the Nobel Prize it is considered and colloquially called the Nobel prize for geography...

, the Retzius Gold Metal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography

Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography

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, as well as an honorary Doctor of Science from the Universitaire de Strasbourg

Louis Pasteur University

Louis Pasteur University , also known as Strasbourg I or ULP was a large university in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. As of January 15, 2007, there were 18,847 students enrolled at the university, including around 3,000 foreign students. Research and teaching at ULP concentrates on the natural...

. Dr. Gould was a main contributor to the quantitative revolution in the field of Geography.

History

Born in 1932 in Coulsdon

Coulsdon

Coulsdon is a town on the southernmost boundary of the London Borough of Croydon. It is surrounded by the Metropolitan Green Belt of the Farthing Down, Coulsdon Common and Kenley Common...

, Surrey

Surrey

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, Peter Gould decided he was going to become a geographer at a fairly young age. He attended Colgate University

Colgate University

Colgate University is a private liberal arts college in Hamilton, New York, USA. The school was founded in 1819 as a Baptist seminary and later became non-denominational. It is named for the Colgate family who greatly contributed to the university's endowment in the 19th century.Colgate has 52...

 for his BA, and Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

for both his MA, and PhD.

Legacy

Professor Gould is still well known for his work with spatial analysis, and mental maps.