Response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1997.

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Response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1997.

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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. Contents include Part One of the Questionnaire, a letter, curriculum vitae, publications list, an autobiographical statement entitled "Looking back over the years", and five published or to-be-published articles. Parker recounts his childhood interests and his graduate studies at California Institute of Technology. Noteworthy figures that influenced his career include Walter M. Elsasser, S. Chandrasekhar, and J. A. Simpson. Parker clearly establishes his divergence from the scientific community over the theory of the magnetosphere.

131 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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American Institute of Physics

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Physicist. High Energy Radiation Section, National Bureau of Standards, 1949-1962; Chief, Radiation Physics Division, 1962-1966; Director, American Institute of Physics, 1966-1986. From the description of The story of the American Institute of Physics, 1967-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154305950 The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a not-for-profit membership corporation chartered in New York State in 1931 for the purpose of promoting the advancement and diffus...

Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995

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Astrophysicist. B.A., Presidency College, Madras University, 1930. Ph. D., Cambridge University, 1933; Sc. D., 1942. Research Associate, Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago, 1937. Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, 1938; Associate Professor, 1942; Professor, 1944; Distinguished Service Professor, 1946; Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, 1952. Managing editor, Astrophysical Journal, 1952-1971. Nobel Prize in Physics, 1983. From t...

Parker, E.N. (Eugene Newman), 1927-

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Physicist. University of Chicago, 1957-. From the description of Response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1997. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80398122 ...

Simpson, J. A. (John Arthur), 1933-

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American geophysical union

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Elsasser, Walter M., 1904-

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Elsasser died in 1991. From the description of Response to History of Geophysics Survey 1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80710094 Died 1991. From the description of Oral history interview with Walter M. Elsasser, 1985 November 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82626096 From the description of Oral history interview with Walter M. Elsasser, 1962 May 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81330511 From the description of Oral history interview wi...