Oral history interview with Fernando Vila, 1997 August 23.

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Oral history interview with Fernando Vila, 1997 August 23.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79200157

Discusses childhood and youth in Argentina; his path to becoming a geologist; the International Geophysical Year; his work on the vessel Vema; his work with gravimeters; his work with Bruce Heezen on mapping; Lamont Geophysical Observatory's presence in Argentina in late 1950s; impressions of W. Maurice Ewing; his work at Lamont; his return to Argentina and his work there in oceanography.

Transcript, 82 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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International Geophysical Year

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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...

Vila, Fernando

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Geophysicist (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 Fernando Vila, 1997 August 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79200157 ...

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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