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Scripps Institution of Oceanography. A celebration in honor of Russell Raitt and Victor Vacquier, October 13, 1992 [audiorecording].

Title: A celebration in honor of Russell Raitt and Victor Vacquier, October 13, 1992 [audiorecording].

These audio cassette tape recordings record a full day program of lectures in honor of the scientific contributions of geophysicists Russell Raitt and Victor Vacquier held at Sumner Auditorium of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD on October 13, 1992. The program was divided into two sessions organized by George Shor and John Sclater. The morning program was introduced by SIO Director Emeritus William A. Nierenberg and included remarks by Cecil Green on Geophysical Service Inc. and on Victor Vacquier. J. Tuzo Wilson discussed his family history and his own education and the relationship of geophysics to geology and physics. Jean Francheteau spoke on Victor Vacquier's contributions to the problem of magnetic lineations and seamounts. Christopher G. Harrison discussed Victor Vacquier's early papers, magnetometer development and current interpretation of magnetics. John Sclater discussed Victor Vacquier's career at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and his work on heat flow. Fred Spiess was the concluding speaker, followed by remarks by Victor Vacquier. The afternoon session included lectures by Sir Anthony Laughton, Robert L. Fisher, Don Helmberger, and Dan MacKenzie with concluding remarks by George Shor.

ArchivalResource: 5 cassette tapes (450 min.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32631831 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

Heirtzler, J. R. (James R.). Early Lamont, 2002.

Title: Early Lamont, 2002.

Collection of reminiscences by Heirtzler and colleagues who worked at Lamont -Doherty Geological Observatory in its early days, primarily from the 1950s through the 1970s. Includes Contents by authors name and by topic, with introduction by Heirtzler. Topics include research vessels used such as VEMA and the Robert D. Conrad, search for the USS Thresher, Doc Ewing, Bruze Heezen, Marie Tharp, cooperative research with Russia, paleomagnetism, and the history of oceanographic research. Contributors include Tony Amos; Charlie Bentley; Hans Berckhemer; Sam Gerard; Muriel Grim; George Hade; Gordon Hamilton; Ellen Herron; Bob Houtz; Leonard Johnson; Jean Parker Katz; Gary Latham; Tony Laughton; Bill Lowrie; Mike Mayhew; Peter Molnar; Misac Nabighian; Jack Oliver; George Peter; Gleb Udintsev; Fred Vine; and Joe Worzel.

ArchivalResource: 194 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79391171 View