Oral history interview with John Verhoogen, 1990 November 6.

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Oral history interview with John Verhoogen, 1990 November 6.

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Interview complements an extensive oral history interview (1976-1977) by William Glen, and focuses on academic geophysics. Verhoogen's study of geophysics in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s; attendance at Rancho Sante Fe conference, 1950; research and teaching at the University of California, Berkeley; impressions of American geophysics community and major research groups, 1950s and 1960s.

Transcript, 14 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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