Gordon G. Lill Papers 1948-1995

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Gordon G. Lill Papers 1948-1995

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Gordon G. Lill was a geophysicist who worked after World War II for the Office of Naval Research and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as an oceanographic scientist and program administrator. This collection contains his journals and notebooks on research projects, primarily Project Mohole, and his scientific papers and reports.

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Gordon G. Lill (1918-1996) was a geophysicist who worked as an oceanographer for the Office of Naval Research after World War II, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in the early 1960s, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from 1970 until he retired. During 1949-1950, he conducted mineralogical surveys in West Africa. At the request of the National Science Foundation, in 1964, he became director of Project Mohole, a pure science endeavor to drill a hole 35,000 feet to the ear...

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