Oral history interview with J. Tuzo Wilson, 1993 February 16.

Doel, Ronald Edmund

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National Research Council (U.S.)

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The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of further knowledge and advising the federal government. The Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. From the descriptio...

University of Toronto. Department of Physics

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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

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Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was...

Geological survey (U.S.)

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E.W. Glafcke was in charge of a crew during the United States Geological Survey's spirit leveling activities in Wyoming and Utah from 1896 to 1912. From the guide to the United States Geologic Survey photograph collection, 1892-1912, 1898-1902, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) First organized as a branch in 1889, the Topographic Division was established in 1947. From the description of Records of the Topographic Division. (Unknown). World...

University of Cambridge.

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Harvard University celebrated its 250th anniversary in 1886. Many institutions of higher education, governments, and individuals sent greetings and congratulations to commemorate the occasion. This seal accompanied greetings from the University of Cambridge, England, to the university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From the description of Sigillum coe cancellarii mror et scholariu Universitat Cantebrigie, 1886. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228509847 The University...

Princeton University

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The collection documents the physical expansion of the University from its earliest period through the acquisition of large tracts of land in the 20th century, including the properties around Carnegie Lake and numerous farms. Early records document transactions with such Princeton University notables as Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, John Witherspoon, Walter Minto, John and Richard Stockton, and John Maclean. For the most part, the papers consist of standard legal documents with detailed descriptions ...

Erindale College

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Infeld, Léopold, 1898-1968

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Physicist (theoretical physics; general theory of relativity; quantum mechanics; studies in Cracow (W. Natanson) and Berlin (M. von Laue); professor in Lwow; Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton, N. J. USA), 1936-1950; Toronto University, 1938-1940; Warsaw University, 1950-1968. Publications: Fondations of the New Field Theory, (Born, Infeld), 1934; The Gravitational Equations and the Problem of Motion (with A. Einstein and B. Hoffmann), 1938-1940; On the Motion of Bodies in General Relativ...

Kuiper, Gerard P. (Gerard Peter), 1905-1973

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Wilson, J. Tuzo (John Tuzo), 1908-1993

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Wilson died in 1993. From the description of Response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83030773 ...