Response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1988.

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Response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1988.

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Letter to Spencer Weart, director of AIP Center for History of Physics; six pages of curriculum vitae and publications; and the questionnaire with brief, handwritten responses. 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 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.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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