Oral history interview with Captain Nestor Granelli, 1997 August 22.

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Oral history interview with Captain Nestor Granelli, 1997 August 22.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78261291

Discusses childhood and youth in Buenos Aires, Argentina; impressions of importance of the Antarctic to Argentina, Antarctic scientific research, geopolitics; 1955 revolution and subsequent political unrest; the International Geophysical Year, Argentine participation and presence of Lamont Geophysical Observatory in Argentina in late 1950s; impressions of W. Maurice Ewing; perceived differences between Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Lamont Geological Observation; early reception of continental drift in Argentina; Argentine aid to Lamont expeditions, workers equipment; work on the Vema; comparisons of Argentine naval ships with the Vema; perceptions of map of the Atlantic sea floor by Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen, and their mapping technique; impressions and contributions to Argentine science of Soviet scientists during the Cold War; W. Maurice Ewing work ethic.

Transcript, 86 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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Granelli, Nestor, 1931-

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Oceanographer (Argentine). Studied at Columbia University and worked aboard the Vema, a research vessel of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. From the description of Oral history interview with Captain Nestor Granelli, 1997 August 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78261291 ...

Tharp, Marie

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Geologist (ocean cartographer). From the description of Oral history interview with Marie Tharp, 1994 September 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78844873 ...

Heezen, Bruce C.

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Oceanographer and geologist, received the B.A. degree from Iowa State University in 1948 and his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 1952. Heezen's entire professional career was spent on the geology department faculty of Columbia University and as a scientist at the Unviersity's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. He was Research Associate, 1955-1957; Senior Research Scientist, 1957-1960; Assistant Professor, 1960-1964; and Associate Professor, 1964-1977. Heezen was also a consultant wi...

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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Ewing, W. Maurice (William Maurice), 1906-1974

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W. Maurice Ewing (1906-1974) was a marine geologist, oceanographer, and geophysicist, who received his B.A., M.A., and PhD in physics and mathematics from Rice University in 1926, 192, and 1931, respectively. He taught geophysics at Lehigh University (1930-1940), the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1940-1944), served as director of the Lamont-Doherty Geophysical Observatory of Columbia University (1949-1972), and joined the University of Texas Medical Branch as the first director of the Ea...

Woods Hole oceanographic institution

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