Response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1988.

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Response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1988.

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A letter to Spencer Weart, director of the Center for History of Physics, a bound copy of a 1976 Texas A&M University Master's thesis by John Miloy entitled "The Origin of the National Sea Grant Program" which includes a chapter on Spilhaus (who originated the Sea Grant concept), an an autobiographical account of his life based on an interview conducted at Claremont College in 1975 by Dr. J. Platt and Enid Douglas. File also includes a curriculum vitae and list of publications. Recipients were asked to send copies of their curriculum vitae and a list of publications as part one of the survey and were then asked to discuss their entry into science in general and geophysics specifically as a career; how their scientific achievements came about and major efforts they were involved in which they did not achieve the hoped for results; changes from one discipline to another; funding sources; the role of other disciplines in their own research; their work as educators; and their involvement in geophysics related institutions.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Texas A&M University

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The history of Texas A&M University, the first public institution of higher education in Texas, began in 1871, when the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas was established as a land-grant college by the Texas Legislature. Classes began on October 4, 1876. Although Texas A&M was originally scheduled to be established under the Texas Constitution as a branch of the yet-to-be-created University of Texas, subsequent acts of the Texas Legislature never gave the university any authority over ...

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Spencer R. Weart, born in 1942, received a B.A. in Physics at Cornell University in 1963 and a Ph. D. in Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1968. He then worked for three years at CalTech as a Fellow of the Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories, publishing papers in leading scientific journals. In 1971 Dr. Weart changed his field, enrolling as a graduate student in the History Department of the University of California, Berkeley. In 1974 he took up his present pos...

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Spilhaus, Athelstan

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Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus, 1911-1998. From the description of Oral history interview with Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus, 1989 November 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82744113 From the description of Oral history interview with Athelstan Frederick Sphilhaus, 1976 March 9 and April 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78435347 Spilhaus was born in 1911. From the description of Response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id...