Oral history interview with Billie K. Press, 1996 and 1997.

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Oral history interview with Billie K. Press, 1996 and 1997.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80620544

Discusses her childhood and education in New York City; her courtship and marriage to Frank Press; Frank Press's education and career at Lamont and Columbia University; his relationship with Maurice Ewing; their children and family life; the beginnings of Lamont; Ewing's impact on Lamont; their moves to California Institute of Technology and, later, MIT. Also prominently mentioned are: Charles Drake, William H. Press, J. L. Worzel.

Transcript (2 sessions), 144 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Drake, Charles L.

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Charles L. Drake (1924- ). Geophysicist. Professor of geophysics, Columbia University, 1958-1967; acting assistant director, Lamont Geophysical Observatory, 1963-1965, professor and chairman of dept, 1967-1969; professor of geology, Dartmouth College from 1969. From the description of Oral history interview with Charles L. Drake, 1995, November 28, 1996 May 22, and 1997 May 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80398029 ...

Press, Billie K. 1925-

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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...

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 ...

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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...

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Press, William H.

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