Oral history interview with James D. Hays, 1996-1997.

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Oral history interview with James D. Hays, 1996-1997.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79715440

Discusses his youth and education in upstate New York; his undergraduate education at Harvard; graduate work at Ohio State and Columbia University in geology; comparisons of Lamont and Scripps Institution; his research in Radiolaria, deep-sea sediment; paleo climatic research, and the CLIMAP Project. Prominently mentioned are Maurice Ewing, Bruce Heezen, John Imbrie.

Transcript (3 sessions), 101 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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