Oral history interview with Frank Press, 1997, July 1 and July 30.

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Oral history interview with Frank Press, 1997, July 1 and July 30.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78544209

Discusses his childhood in the Jewish tenements of Brooklyn; his education at City College of New York; his graduate education at Columbia as a student of Maurice Ewing; the beginnings of Lamont; Ewing's impact on Lamont; work in seismology, wave propagation; mapping the sea floor; the importance of the International Geophysical Year; his work as President Carter's Science Advisor. Prominently mentioned are: Maurice Ewing, Bruce Heezen, Arthur Holmes, Marshall Kay, Jack Oliver, J. L. Worzel.

Transcript (2 sessions), 129 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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