Oral history interview with Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus, 1989 November 10.

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Oral history interview with Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus, 1989 November 10.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82744113

Descriptions of other Spilhaus oral history interviews that cover childhood as well as career in education and public service; impressions of graduate education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), early 1930s; work at Sperry Corporation. Meteorological research at MIT (C.-G. Rossby, C. S. Draper); meteorological work with Technical Services, South African Army, 1935-1936. Return to MIT, 1936; develops bathythermograph; life at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Professorship in Meteorology at New York University; impressions of department. Develops ozone research project; post-World War II involvement in numerical weather forecasting (John Von Neumann). Dean of Institute of Technology at University of Minnesota, 1949-1966; involvement in weapons testing, involvement in United States National Committee of the International Geophysical Year; impressions of committee members and its operations. National Academy of Sciences advisory panels on oceanography and waste management. Personal philosophy.

Sound recordings: 8 sound cassettes (ca. 7.25 hrs.), 1 session.Transcript: 111 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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