Oral history interview with J. Laurence Kulp, 1996.

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Oral history interview with J. Laurence Kulp, 1996.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83308756

Discusses childhood in New Jersey, his college years at Drew University and Wheaton College and his graduate work at Ohio State and Princeton; the influence of the geochemistry program at Columbia University; his work at Lamont-Doherty. Significant mentions include Wallace R. Broecker, Maurice Ewing, Paul Gast, Willard F. Libby, Harold Urey.

Transcript, 199 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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