Oral history interview with Alma Kesner, 1995 October 25 and 1997 March 18.

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Oral history interview with Alma Kesner, 1995 October 25 and 1997 March 18.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84971950

Discusses the personal relationships, interactions, and social life at Lamont-Doherty; the research vessels, Prominently mentioned are Maurice Ewing, Bruce Heezen, Henry Kohler, Marie Tharp, and J. Worzel.

Transcript, 163 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Heezen, Bruce C.

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Oceanographer and geologist, received the B.A. degree from Iowa State University in 1948 and his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 1952. Heezen's entire professional career was spent on the geology department faculty of Columbia University and as a scientist at the Unviersity's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. He was Research Associate, 1955-1957; Senior Research Scientist, 1957-1960; Assistant Professor, 1960-1964; and Associate Professor, 1964-1977. Heezen was also a consultant wi...

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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Tharp, Marie

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Geologist (ocean cartographer). From the description of Oral history interview with Marie Tharp, 1994 September 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78844873 ...

Kesner, Alma.

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Purchasing Agent and bookkeeper, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory from the early 1950s. From the description of Oral history interview with Alma Kesner, 1995 October 25 and 1997 March 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84971950 ...

Doel, Ronald Edmund

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Ewing, W. Maurice (William Maurice), 1906-1974

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W. Maurice Ewing (1906-1974) was a marine geologist, oceanographer, and geophysicist, who received his B.A., M.A., and PhD in physics and mathematics from Rice University in 1926, 192, and 1931, respectively. He taught geophysics at Lehigh University (1930-1940), the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1940-1944), served as director of the Lamont-Doherty Geophysical Observatory of Columbia University (1949-1972), and joined the University of Texas Medical Branch as the first director of the Ea...

Kohler, Henry Conrad.

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Ship's captain of the Vema, the sailing vessel of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. From the description of Oral history interview Henry Conrad Kohler, 1996 May 27, 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79753085 ...

Worzel, J. Lamar (John Lamar), 1919-2008

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Geophysicist. Professor of geophysics, Columbia University, 1950-1972; assistant director, Lamont Geophysical Observatory, 1951-1962 and associate director, 1963-1972; professor of Geophysics and director, Earth & Planetary Science Division, Marine Biomedical Institution, University of Texas, Galveston, from 1972-1979. From the description of Oral history interview with J. Lamar Worzel, 1996, January 2 and 3 and May 14 and 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80180915 From...