Papers, 1945-1991.

Johanson, Gunnar, 1951-

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Alfvén, Hannes, 1908-1995

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Astrophysicist who contributed significantly to advances in fields of magnetohydrodynamics, plasma physics, geophysics, thermonuclear reaction, and cosmology. Alfven shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics with Louis Neel. He formulated several controversial explanations of the behavior of interstellar magnetic fields, which undermined the "big bang" theory of the creation of the universe. Though initially viewed with great skepticism, Alfven's theories came to have a revolutionizing influence on...

Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-

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Died in 1981. From the description of Oral history interview with Harold Clayton Urey, 1964 March 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84584513 Epithet: US chemist, Nobel laureate British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x0000b4 Mildred Cohn was a biochemist and biophysicist. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1938 and was a research associate in biochemistry at several univers...

Kopal, Zdeněk, 1914-1993

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Astronomer. Taught at Harvard and MIT during and after Second World War. Head of Astronomy Department, University of Manchester, 1951-1981. Died 1993. From the description of Papers, ca. 1950s-1980s. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83770241 Kopal died in 1993. From the description of Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, ca. 1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84429774 ...

Pugwash Conferences on Science & World Affairs.

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De Vaucouleurs, Gerard, 1918-1995

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York, Herbert F. (Herbert Frank)

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Experimental physicist who was founding director of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and first Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego. York also was a member of Presidential Scientific Advisory Committee under Presidents Eisenhower and Johnson, and Chief Scientist of the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency. From the description of Papers, ca. 1958-1999. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 20293837 A physicist by pr...

University of California, San Diego

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Administrative History The Chancellor acts as head of administration and has general authority over the campus. He is responsible for setting up the administrative structure and insuring that the various units function properly. He has specific delegated authority to sign employment contracts of faculty and staff and to represent the University in public forums. Herbert F. York was appointed first Chancellor of the University of C...

Anderson, Victor C. (Victor Charles), 1921-

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Peratt, Anthony L.

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Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994

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Born in Portland, Oregon on 28 February 1901. Died on 19 August 1994. Education: B.S., Chemical Engineering, Oregon State College (1922), Ph.D., Physical Chemistry and Mathematical Physics, California Institute of Technology (1925). Employment: 1925-1926 National Research Council; 1926-1927 Universities of Münich, Zürich, and Copenhagen; 1922-1969 California Institute of Technology; 1969- Stanford University; 1973-1979 Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine. From the descr...

Lehnert, B. (Bo), 1926-

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Arp, Halton C.

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Akasofu, Syun-Ichi.

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Director of the UAF Geophysical Institute from 1986 to 1999. From the description of Oral history interview with Syun-Ichi Akasofu, 1985 December 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154305861 ...