Matchbook, c1973.

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Matchbook, c1973.

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The accession consists of two matchbooks designed by geophysicist Jan Diederik Garmany, who was a student of geophysicist Freeman Gilbert at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Garmany had the matchbooks fabricated at the Monarch Match Company of San Jose, California and distributed them at an American Geophysicists Union annual meeting in San Francisco. The matchbook cover bears the sketched likeness of Freeman Gilbert and the following text: Hey Guys want BIG money? Cars. Girls..Inverse Theory? The FAMOUS GEOPHYSIST SCHOOL is for YOU! The verso of the matchbook is inscribed: LISTEN TO OUR SATISFIED SUBSCRIBERS - "My life was a random walk until I took the FGS course. Thanx guys!" --F.P. Cambridge, Ma. "I used to be bothered by the gross inadequacy of my data, but since FGS showed me how to use them, I'm a new man!" R.L.P., La Jolla, Ca. DON't DELAY! SEND TODAY!

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University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7352220

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Library. Archives.

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American geophysical union

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Garmany, Jan Diederik, 1949-

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Geophysicist. From the description of Matchbook, c1973. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 33935006 ...

Gilbert, Freeman

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University of California, San Diego. Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics

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The La Jolla branch of the University of California Institute of Geophysics was established in July 1959. The institute was founded by Walter H. Munk to study the planet Earth, its atmosphere, oceans and interior, using the methods of experimental and mathematical physics. It was intended as a branch of the University of California, Los Angeles Institute of Geophysics which was established in 1946. The name of the branch was changed in 1960 to the University of California San Diego Institute of ...