Word: geophysicists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a tall, tanned geophysicist and petroleum engineer named Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. addressed the Institute of Radio Engineers in San Francisco. He told them how seismographic or "artificial earthquake" methods of prospecting for oil had improved in recent years. Technique at present is to bore a hole 500 ft. deep, drop a dynamite charge to the bottom. When the charge is exploded, vibrations resembling earthquake waves ripple out in all directions. Some travel straight down, and part of them are reflected back up with different intensities from layers of rock, sandstone, limestone, shale. Geophones on the surface pick...
Fifty-three years old, Clark's formal record sounds very like a geophysicist and very unlike a child story teller: Harvard Ph.D. in 1914 with a record of "A's", Phi Beta Kappa, teacher successively at ten colleges such as Radcliffe, Oberlin, Stanford and Victoria in New Zealand, he feels that children's books are too staid, that his are going to be different...
...Sydney Adams; Research Directors Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories and Charles Edward Kenneth Mees of Eastman Kodak; Astronomers Otto Struve of Yerkes Observatory and Clyde Fisher of Manhattan; Assistant Director Lyman James Briggs of the U. S. Bureau of Standards and Dr. Arthur Louis Day, Carnegie Institution geophysicist...
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