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Johnston, Harold S., 1920-. Response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1997.

Title: Response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1997.

Response to a survey of approximately 250 leading geophysicists worldwide, conducted by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Center for History of Physics and the Committee on History of Geophysics of the American Geophysical Union in 1997. Recipients were asked to send copies of their curriculum vitae and a list of publications as Part One of the survey and were then asked to discuss their entry into science in general and geophysics specifically as a career; how their scientific achievements came about and major efforts they were involved in which did not achieve the hoped for results; changes from one discipline to another; funding sources; the role of other disciplines in their own research; their work as educators; and their involvement in geophysics-related institutions. Johnston submitted a variety of materials in response to the survey, including: answers to Part One; answers to Part Two in narrative form, detailing his choice of chemistry as a career; a two-page biography-bibliography; a selected bibliography with comments, arranged topically; two-page narrative description of the Harold Johnston Scholarship for Undergraduate Students at Emory University which contains a family history; publication bibliography; article reprint "Atmospheric Ozone".

ArchivalResource: 62 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84945721 View

History of physics manuscript biography collection I-L, 1901-1989, [ca. ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk)

Title: History of physics manuscript biography collection I-L, 1901-1989, [ca. ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk)

Included are typescript autobiographical or biographical essays about physicists, solicited since 1960 by the American Institute of Physics, and responses to biographical questionnaires sent to physicists working chiefly in the following areas: nuclear physics, astronomy and astrophysics, laser science, and geophysics. Other biographical and autobiographical writings take the form of letters, eulogies, travel diaries, curriculum vitae, and bibliographies. All of these document the lives and scientific careers of physicists born roughly between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among those represented are: George J. Igo, J. A. Jacobs, Stephen F. Jacobs, Theodor S. Jacobsen, Hubert Maxwell James, Sir Harold Jeffreys, Herbert Jehle, William Polk Jesse, John Bertrand Johnson, Leo Francis Johnson, Harold S. Johnston, John A. Jungerman, John Clarence Karcher, William M. Kaula, Wilbur Irving Kaye, H. Kayser, Joseph Henry Keenan, Philip C. Keenan, Bernard D. Kern, Motoharu Kimura, Paul Kirkpatrick, Carl Kisslinger, Charles Kittle, Oskar Klein, Ernest Donals Klema, Jere Knight, Charles Koester, George Andrew Kolstad, Zdenk Kopal, John D. Draus, Konrad Krauskopf, N. J. Krreidl, Dieter Kurath, Elizabeth Laird, Rolf William Landauer, Alfred Land, Lawrence M. Langer, A. S. Laughton, David Lazarus, Thomas H. Lee, Philipp Lenard, Francis A. L'Esperance, Humboldt Walter Leverenz, Joseph S. Levinger, I. M. Levitt, Richard H. Levy, D. K. Lilly, Rachael Tupper Lindsay, R. Bruce Lindsay, Sara Lee Lippincott, R. N. Little, Rocco V. Lobraico, Edward V. Locke, Leonard B. Loeb, Donald Holt Loughridge, Francis E. Low, Willem Luyten.

ArchivalResource: 63 linear ft. (ca. 550 items) in entire collection.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80405080 View