Oral history interview with William Ryan, 1997.

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Oral history interview with William Ryan, 1997.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82445512

Discusses his youth in upstate New York and education at Hotchkiss and then Williams College; his graduate work at Columbia University with Bruce Heezen as his advisor; the social climate of the 1960s at Columbia and around the country; environmental issues; the departure of Maurice Ewing from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

Transcript, 59 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Ryan, William B. F., 1939-

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Tharp, Marie

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Heezen, Bruce C.

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Ewing, W. Maurice (William Maurice), 1906-1974

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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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