Flashcards: American geophysicists

Bruce Alan Bolt (February 15, 1930 – July 21, 2005) was an Australian-born American seismologist and a professor of earth and planetary science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Walter Clarkson Pitman, III is a geophysicist and a professor emeritus at Columbia University.

Leason Heberling Adams (January 16, 1887 – August 20, 1969) was an American geophysicist and researcher.

Raymond T. Pierrehumbert is the Halley Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford.

Wallace Smith Broecker (born November 29, 1931 in Chicago) is the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, a scientist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and a sustainability fellow at Arizona State University.

John Marsh Wilcox (1925 – October 14, 1983) was an American geophysicist.

Dr. Frederick Eugene Wright (October 16, 1877 – August 25, 1953) was an American optical scientist and geophysicist.

Don Lynn Anderson (March 5, 1933 – December 2, 2014) was an American geophysicist who made significant contributions to the understanding of the origin, evolution, structure, and composition of Earth and other planets.

Robin Elizabeth Bell is a professor at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

Arthur Louis Day (October 30, 1869 – March 2, 1960) was an American geophysicist and volcanologist.

Scott Ellsworth Forbush (April 10, 1904 – April 4, 1984) was an American astronomer, physicist and geophysicist who is recognized as having laid the observational foundations for many of the central features of solar-interplanetary-terrestrial physics, which at the time was an underdeveloped field of study.

Michael E. Wysession (born December 6, 1961) is an Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St.

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E. Paul Palmer (1926-2011) is a retired Brigham Young University physicist who specialized in geophysics.

John Call Cook, PhD (April 7, 1918 – October 12, 2012) was an American geophysicist who played a crucial role in establishing the field of ground-penetrating radar and is generally regarded as contributing the fundamental research to develop the field.

Norman (Norm) Phillips is an American geophysical fluid dynamicist.

Dennis Eugene Hedke (born October 1, 1952) is an American politician.

John Emilio Vidale (March 15, 1959 –) is an American-born seismologist who specializes in examining seismograms to explore features within the Earth.

Norman Abraham Haskell (1905-1970), was an American geophysicist Starting his graduate work on measuring the viscosity of the mantle, Haskell made major contributions to geophysics over a career that lasted nearly 40 years.

William Maurice "Doc" Ewing (May 12, 1906 – May 4, 1974) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer.

Lucile M. Jones (born 1955) is a seismologist and public voice for earthquake science and earthquake safety in California.

Oscar Edward Meinzer (November 28, 1876 – June 14, 1948) was an American hydrogeologist who has been called the "father of modern groundwater hydrology".

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Ernest Harry Vestine (May 9, 1906 – July 18, 1968) was an American geophysicist and meteorologist.

Eugene McDermott (1899-1973) was a geophysicist and co-founder first of Geophysical Service and later of Texas Instruments.

Everette Lee DeGolyer (October 9, 1886 – December 14, 1956), was a prominent oilman, geophysicist and philanthropist in Dallas.

Tanya Atwater (born August 27, 1942) is a retired American geophysicist and marine geologist who specialized in plate tectonics, in particular the evolution of the San Andreas Fault plate boundary.

Gordon James Fraser MacDonald (July 30, 1929 – May 14, 2002) was an American geophysicist and environmental scientist, best known for his principled skepticism regarding continental drift (now called plate tectonics), involvement in the development of the McNamara Line electronic defense barrier during the Vietnam War, and early research and advocacy on manmade global climate change.

James Fraser Kasting (born January 2, 1953) is an American geoscientist and Distinguished Professor of Geosciences at Penn State University.

Gerald J. Wasserburg (March 25, 1927 – June 13, 2016) was an American geologist.

James Syvitski is an American professor of oceanography and geology.

Henry Pollack is emeritus professor of geophysics at the University of Michigan.

James Freeman Gilbert (August 9, 1931 – August 15, 2014) was an American geophysicist, best known for his work with George E.

John "Jack" Ertle Oliver (September 26, 1923 – January 5, 2011) was an American scientist.

Marcia Kemper McNutt (born February 19, 1952) is an American geophysicist who is president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

Allan Verne Cox (December 17, 1926 – January 27, 1987) was an American geophysicist.

Margaret G. Kivelson is an American space physicist, planetary scientist, and Distinguished Professor Emerita of Space Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Mary Lou Zoback (née Chetlain) (born July 5, 1952) is an American geophysicist who led the World Stress Map Project of the International Lithosphere Program.

Merle Anthony Tuve (June 27, 1901 – May 20, 1982) was an American geophysicist who was the founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Norman Frederick Ness (born April 15, 1933) was an American geophysicist.

Owen Martin Phillips (December 30, 1930 – October 13, 2010) was a U.

Richard John O'Connell (August 27, 1941 – April 2, 2015) was an American geophysicist working on the internal dynamics of the Earth and how they evolved over time and are observed at the surface.

Cecil Howard Green KBE (August 6, 1900 – April 11, 2003) was a British-born American geophysicist who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Syun-Ichi Akasofu (赤祖父 俊一 Akasofu Shun'ichi, born December 4, 1930, Saku, Nagano, Japan) is the founding director of the International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), serving in that position from the center's establishment in 1998 until January 2007.

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James H. Dieterich (born 1942) is an American geophysics professor emeritus at University of California, Riverside (UCR).

Charles "Chip" Shipley Cox (September 11, 1922 – November 30, 2015) was an oceanographic physicist.

Inés Lucia Cifuentes (April 26, 1954 – December 16, 2014) was an English-born American seismologist and educator.

Dallas Abbott is a research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and is part of the Holocene Impact Working Group.

William "Bill" Francis Brace (26 August 1926, Littleton, New Hampshire – 2 May 2012) was an American geophysicist.

John Clarence Karcher (June 4, 1894 – July 13, 1978) was an American geophysicist and businessman.

Susan Elizabeth Hough (born March 20, 1961) is a seismologist at the United States Geological Survey in Pasadena, California, and scientist in charge of the office.

Jon F. Claerbout (born 1937) is the Cecil Green Professor Emeritus of Geophysics at Stanford University.

Frederick Joseph Agnich, known as Fred Agnich (July 19, 1913 – October 28, 2004), was a Minnesota-born geophysicist who served from 1971 to 1987 as a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives.

Clyde A. Wahrhaftig (December 1, 1919 – April 6, 1994) was an American geophysicist.

Johannes Weertman (born 11 May 1925 in Fairfield, Alabama) is an American materials scientist and geophysicist.

Peter Langdon Ward is a geophysicist specializing in seismology and volcanology.

Francis Birch (August 22, 1903 – January 30, 1992) was an American geophysicist.

Robert Sinclair Dietz (September 14, 1914 – May 19, 1995) was a scientist with the US Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Robert M. Schoch is an associate professor of Natural Sciences at the College of General Studies, a two-year core curriculum for bachelor's degree candidates at Boston University.

Ronald E. Cohen (born 5 March 1957) is an American scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science's Geophysical Laboratory.

Leon Knopoff (July 1, 1925 – January 20, 2011) was a geophysicist and musicologist.

Charles R. Bentley (born 1931, Rochester, New York) is an American glaciologist and geophysicist.

Louis Agricola Bauer (January 26, 1865 – April 12, 1932) was an American geophysicist, astronomer and magnetician, born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

William Jason Morgan (born October 10, 1935) is an American geophysicist who has made seminal contributions to the theory of plate tectonics and geodynamics.

Claudia Joan Alexander (May 30, 1959 – July 11, 2015) was an American research scientist specializing in geophysics and planetary science.

Peter Molnar is a professor in geological sciences at the University of Colorado.

Andrew Jay "Drew" Feustel (/ˈfɔɪstəl/; born August 25, 1965) is an American geophysicist and a NASA astronaut.

Charles B. Archambeau is an American geophysicist.

Christian Thomas Elvey (April 1, 1899 – March 1, 1970) was an American astronomer and geophysicist.

Louis Byrne Slichter (May 19, 1896 – March 25, 1978) was an American physicist and geophysicist who directed the Institute of Geophysics at UCLA.

Marius Vassiliou (born 1957) is an American computational scientist, geophysicist, and aerospace executive.

Harry Hammond Hess (May 24, 1906 – August 25, 1969) was a geologist and a United States Navy officer in World War II.

Albert Paddock Crary (July 25, 1911 – October 29, 1987), was a pioneer polar geophysicist and glaciologist.

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David Deming (born 1954), an American geologist and geophysicist, is an associate professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.

David Evans is an American professor of geology and geophysics at Yale University.

David Perry Rubincam, Ph.

H. Jay Melosh (born June 23, 1947) is an American geophysicist, renowned as an expert on impact cratering.

Harry Fielding Reid (May 18, 1859 – June 18, 1944) was an American geophysicist.

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J. Lamar (Joe) Worzel (February 21, 1919 – December 26, 2008), American geophysicist known for his important contributions to underwater acoustics, underwater photography, and gravity measurements at sea.

J. Marvin Herndon (born 1944) is an American interdisciplinary scientist, who earned his BA degree in physics in 1970 from the University of California, San Diego and his Ph.

Jack H. Healy (born August 7, 1929) is an American visionary geophysicist who worked at the US Geological Survey from 1965 to 1995.

Dr Jeffrey C. Wynn (aka Jeff Wynn), is a research geophysicist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

Samuel Blakeslee (born June 25, 1955) is the founding Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology & Public Policy at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.