Word: geophysicists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. John Adam Fleming, 79, top-level geophysicist, director (1935-46) of the department of terrestrial magnetism at the Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C., supervisor of the institution's world magnetic survey, authority on sunspots and radio disturbance; in San Mateo, Calif...
Most of the pilots were scientists-chiefly meteorologists, electronics engineers, aerodynamicists-who devoted their spare time and their rainy hours to such pursuits as lectures by Geophysicist Joachim Kuettner on "A New Investigation of Stratospheric and Tropospheric Airflow in Powerful Mountain Waves," or "Research on the Transport of Freezing Nuclei and on Atmospheric Turbulence by Means of a Sailplane...
Among the scientific professions listed are: chemist, design engineer draftsman, geologist, geophysicist, mathematician, microbiologist, physicist and physiologist...
Felix Andries Vening-Meinesz, Dutch geophysicist . . . Sc.D...
High above the earth's atmosphere, 6,000 to 11,000 miles above its surface, whirls a great ring of invisible gas. This is the belief of Geophysicist Sydney Chapman, formerly of Oxford. He cannot prove conclusively that the ring is there, but strong theoretical reasons have convinced him that it exists...