Response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1989.

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Response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1989.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83060988

File consists of: brief autobiography and cover letter. Recipients were asked to send copies of their curriculum vitae and a list of publications as part one of the survey and were then asked to discuss their entry into science in general and geophysics specifically as a career; how their scientific achievements came about and major efforts they were involved in which they did not achieve the hoped for results; changes from one discipline to another; funding sources; the role of other disciplines in their own research; their work as educators; and their involvement in geophysics related institutions.

8 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Schaefer, Vincent J.

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This collection documents the life and work of Vincent J. Schaefer of Schenectady, New York. From 1922-1926, he completed a four-year apprenticeship as a machinist and was assigned to the machine shop at the General Electric Research Laboratory. In 1929, Schaefer became a modelmaker at GE where he started building equipment for Irving Langmuir who had won the Nobel Prize for his work in surface chemistry. In 1932, Langmuir made Schaefer his assistant. Schaefer studied and published articles on s...