Records of the Director, 1943-1955.

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Records of the Director, 1943-1955.

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The collection includes correspondence, minutes, budgetary material, grant applications, and notes. The material was generated and received by SIO Directors Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1943-1948), Carl Eckart (1948-1950), and Roger Randall Dougan Revelle (1950-1955). Early files document the move to establish an Institute of Geophysics at the University of California and the selection of staff members, a director, and an advisory board. Later files include research grant applications, agendas and minutes of Advisory Board meetings, records of Annual Conferences of the Institute, and documentation of the unsuccessful 1952 attempt to move the Institute to La Jolla. Principal correspondents include: Jacob Bjerknes, Sir Edward Crisp Bullard, Cark Eckart, Denis L. Fox, JoĢˆrgen Holmboe, Joseph Kaplan, Vern Oliver Knudsen, Leonard C. Loeb, Walter H. Munk, Roger Revelle, Carl-Gustav Rossby, Louis B. Slichter, Robert Gordon Sproul, Harald U. Sverdrup.

5 linear in. (1 MSS box)

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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University of California Institute of Geophysics

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Eckart, Carl, 1902-1973

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Physicist and oceanographer (quantum mechanics, atomic physics, underwater acoustics, geophysical hydrodynamics); professor of geophysics, University of California, San Diego (UCSD); first director of the UCSD Marine Physical Laboratory; director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1948-1950). Died 1973. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154306129 Physicist, oceanographer, and educator. Died 1973. From the description of Papers of...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Office of the Director.

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Sverdrup, H. U. 1888-1957.

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Revelle, Roger, 1909-1991

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Revelle (1909-1991). Research oceanographer, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. From the description of Sound recordings, 1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82028116 From the description of Oral history interview with Roger Revelle: Observations on the Office of Naval Research and International Science, 1945-1960 1984 November. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 83494102 American oceanographer. From the description of Papers, ...