Oral history interview with Samuel Katz, 1997 May 14.

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Oral history interview with Samuel Katz, 1997 May 14.

Topics include his family's flight from Europe in the 1930s; growing up in New York; his education at the University of Michigan and Columbia University; his wife, Jean Katz's experiences as a woman in science in the 1940s; her work as Maurice Ewing's secretary; the research vessels; seismology; Prominently mentioned are: William Donn, Maurice Ewing, Bruce Heezen, Jack Oliver, Frank Press, Joe Worzel, Paul Wuenschel.

Transcript, 114 pp.

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Dr. Samuel L. Katz is the Wilburt Cornell Davison Professor and Chairman Emeritus of Pediatrics at Duke University Medical Center. From the description of Oral history interview with Samuel L. Katz, 2007. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 317715358 Geophysicist. Lamont-Doughty Geophysical Observatory, 1948-1953; professor of Geophysics, Rensselaer Polytechnich Institute, 1956-1985. From the description of Oral history interview with Samuel Katz, 1997 May 14....

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...

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Doel, Ronald Edmund

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Worzel, J. Lamar (John Lamar), 1919-2008

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Geophysicist. Professor of geophysics, Columbia University, 1950-1972; assistant director, Lamont Geophysical Observatory, 1951-1962 and associate director, 1963-1972; professor of Geophysics and director, Earth & Planetary Science Division, Marine Biomedical Institution, University of Texas, Galveston, from 1972-1979. From the description of Oral history interview with J. Lamar Worzel, 1996, January 2 and 3 and May 14 and 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80180915 From...

Oliver, J. E. (Jack Ertle), 1923-2011

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Geophysicist (Seismology). Research associate, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, 1953-1955; Professor of geology, Columbia University, 1955-1971; chairman of dept. of geology, Cornell University from 1971. From the description of Oral history interview with Jack E. Oliver, 1996 March 8 and 1997 September 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83510609 Geophysicist (Seismology). Research associate, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, 1953-1955; professor of geology, Colum...

Press, Frank, 1924-

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Press was chairman of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. From the description of Ranger Project, Flight Readiness of Instrument : letter to Cargill Hall, JPL Historian, 1973 Jul 26. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives). WorldCat record id: 733099577 Press was Director of the Seismological Laboratory. From the description of Request for more Ranger capsule experiments : letter to Homer Newell, NASA, 1962 Oct 22. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

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...