Response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1991.

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Response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1991.

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An account of O'Keefe's scientific life up to 1960 which describes his research in geodesy and planetology during employment with the United States Corps of Engineers (1942-1958), and with the Theoretical Division of NASA under Robert Jastrow (1958-1960); the military applications of his research; and the new applications of satellite technology for geodesy. File also includes a twelve-page list of publications.

25 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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