Oral history interview with Walter C. Pitman, 1995-1997.

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Oral history interview with Walter C. Pitman, 1995-1997.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83308691

Discusses childhood and education; his first trip to sea on the Lamont ship, Vema; his graduate work in oceanography at Columbia University and Lamont; publishing his first paper on the magnetic anomaly in 1966; mid-ocean ridges; later cruises on the Vema; life at Lamont in the 1960 and 70s; the departure of Maurice Ewing. Also prominently mentioned are: James Heirtzler, Henry Kohler, Jack Nafe, Manik Talwani.

Transcript (3 sessions), 126 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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