Dedication of R/V Robert Gordon Sproul, December 10, 1984 [sound recording].

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Dedication of R/V Robert Gordon Sproul, December 10, 1984 [sound recording].

The collection consists of one 90-minute audio cassette tape recording of the dedication of the research vessel Robert Gordon Sproul at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Nimitz Marine Facility on December 10, 1984. The dedication ceremony included welcoming remarks by SIO Director William A. Nierenberg, and addresses by UCSD Chancellor Richard C. Atkinson and University of California President David Gardner.

1 audiocassette tape (90 minutes)

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Library. Archives.

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Gardner, David Pierpont, 1933-

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David Pierpont Gardner (b. 1933) received his Bachelor of Science from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1955, his M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1959, and his Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 1966. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, member of the National Academy of Education, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. Following his tenure as President at the University of Utah from 1973-1982, he became President of the University of...

Atkinson, Richard C.

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Nierenberg, William Aaron, 1919-2000

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Died 2000. From the description of Oral history interview with William Aaron Nierenberg, 1986 February 6 to 30 June. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79005537 Physicist and oceanographer. Nierenberg received his B.S. from the City College of New York in 1939 and his M.A. and Ph. D. degrees in physics from Columbia in 1942 and 1947. He was a research scientist with the Manhattan Project from 1942 to 1945. He was an instructor in physics at Columbia, 1946-1948, and assistant pro...

Robert Gordon Sproul (Research vessel)

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