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Mason, Max,. Papers, 1898-1961.

Title: Papers, 1898-1961.

Correspondence; notebooks; typescripts; lantern slides; memorabilia. The correspondence (1925-1936) includes professional correspondence concerning the Chicago Centennial Exhibition of 1933, National Academy of Science award committees, professional appointments at the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories, and the activities of his consulting businesses: Mason, Slichter and Hay, and Mason, Slichter and Gauld. A notebook (1900) holds course notes from Göttingen University; two notebooks (1942-1943) contain mathematical computations made by Mason while at Caltech. Typescripts (1928-1945) include articles and speeches on the relationship of government and research, and geophysical exploration. Lantern slides are from a lecture on submarine detection technology. Memorabilia include medals, citations, a testimonial booklet, and honorary degrees. Correspondents include: George K. Burgess, Brownlee B. Gauld, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Donald C. Slichter, Louis B. Slichter, Augustus Trowbridge.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. (4 boxes)

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Office of the Director. Records, 1943-1955.

Title: Records, 1943-1955.

The collection includes five linear inches of correspondence, minutes, budgetary material, grant applications, and notes dated May 1943 to June 1955. The material was generated and received by SIO Directors Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1943-1948), Carl Eckart (1948-1950) and Roger Randall Dougan Revelle (1950-1955). Early files document the move to establish an Institute of Geophysics at the University of California, and the selection of staff members, a director, and an advisory board. Later files include research grant applications, agendas and minutes of Advisory Board meetings, records of Annual Conferences of the Institute, and documentation of the unsuccessful 1952 attempt to move the Institute to La Jolla. Principal correspondents include Jacob Bjerknes, Sir Edward Crisp Bullard, Carl Eckart, Denis L. Fox, Jörgen Holmboe, Joseph Kaplan, Vern C. Knudsen, Leonard C. Loeb, Walter H. Munk, Roger Randall Dougan Revelle, Carl-Gustav Rossby, Louis B. Slichter, Robert Gordon Sproul, Harald Ulrik Sverdrup.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear ft.

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Munk, Walter H. (Walter Heinrich), 1917-. Oral history interview with Walter Heinrich Munk, 1997-1998.

Title: Oral history interview with Walter Heinrich Munk, 1997-1998.

A thorough survey of the life and work of Munk. Early life and education in Austria and the United States. 1917 to the mid-1930s; undergraduate education at California Institute of Technology; becomes graduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography; experience in U.S. Army; extended discussion of war-time research and Munk's loss of security clearances. Completion of Ph. D. at Scripps; extensive recollections of research and social activities at Scripps, including his impressions of Harald Sverdrup, Carl Eckart, and Roger Revelle; his development with Sverdrup during World War II of methods to predict surf conditions for Allied landings in Normandy, North Africa, and Pacific islands; of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution of European oceanographic research, 1940s and 1950s; the role of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Navy as a patron for science; and the personality and research of Carl-Gustav Rossby. Studies geophysical phenomena associated with U.S. atomic bomb tests at Bikini Island, mid-1940s, as well as hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific (early 1950s). Scientific work on ocean currents (including impressions of Henry Stommel), ocean wave spectra (including Waves Across the Pacific study, 1960s), and the Acoustic Thermography of Ocean Climate (ATOC) project to investigate shifts in global ocean temperatures, including intense public controversy over this experiment involving potential harm to. Undersea mammals (late 1980s-1990s). Impressions of the California loyalty oath controversy, 1950s. Detailed recollections of design and construction of Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at Scripps, including interations with Louis Slichter and Willard F. Libby, as well as research programs at the IGPP; extensive discussion of funding practices in earth sciences research in America, Europe, and the Soviet Union, particularly the role of the National Science Foundation and the philanthropist Cecil H. Green. Impressions of the Soviet Institute of Oceanography. Collaborations with Gordon MacDonald in writing 1960 book on tides and earth rotation. Impressions of social revolution of 1960s and political views at Scripps, with descriptions of meetings with Angela Davis, Eldridge Cleaver, and Herbert Marcuse. Membership in JASONS, as well as anti-JASON protests; Lengthy recollections of Maurice Ewing and the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory; comments on SIO and IGPP directors including William Nierenberg, Ed Friedman, Freeman Gilbert, and Fred Spiess. General remarks on the social structure of American geophysics and oceanography, as well as comparisons of American and Soviet Styles of oceanograhpic research.

ArchivalResource: 22 cassettes (21.5 hr.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83949192 View

Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Office of the Director. Records, 1943-1955.

Title: Records, 1943-1955.

The collection includes five linear inches of correspondence, minutes, budgetary material, grant applications, and notes dated May 1943 to June 1955. The material was generated and received by SIO Directors Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1943-1948), Carl Eckart (1948-1950), and Roger Randall Dougan Revelle (1950-1955). Early files document the move to establish an Institute of Geophysics at the University of California and the selection of staff members, a director, and an advisory board. Later files include research grant applications, agendas and minutes of Advisory Board meetings, records of Annual Conferences of the Institute, and documentation of the unsuccessful 1952 attempt to move the Institute to La Jolla. Principal correspondents include: Jacob Bjerknes, Sir Edward Crisp Bullard, Cark Eckart, Denis L. Fox, Jörgen Holmboe, Joseph Kaplan, Vern C. Knudsen, Leonard C. Loeb, Walter H. Munk, Roger Randall Dougan Revelle, Carl-Gustav Rossby, Louis B. Slichter, Robert Gordon Sproul, Harald Ukrik Sverdrup.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 linear ft.

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