Response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1988.

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Response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1988.

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File includes a five-page autobiographical sketch which covers Howell's undergraduate education at Princeton University in physics and geology with J. Tuzo Wilson, George Woolard, and Steve Fox; his graduate work at California Institute of Technology in geophysics under Gennady W. Potapenko; employment at the University of California Division of War Research with Walter Munk during World War II, and with United Geophysical Company in Pasadena afterwards; and his professorship at Pennsylvania State University and his role in building the geophysics and geochemistry program there. File also includes Howell's curriculum vitae and a list of publications.

26 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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