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...position enviable and almost unique among U.S. museum men is that, as unpaid director and one of the principal backers of the museum, he can run his show as he pleases. As an aid to on-the-spot decisions, he always carries in his pocket a 14-power geologist's magnifying glass, noting that "in some ways both art and geology are a matter of trained observation." One peek into the top of some towering packing cases was all Fuller needed to decide on the monumental Chinese stone figures that now stand on the museum's sweeping front...
Credit for Kermac's climb goes largely to President McGee, 52, a tall, rawhide-tough wildcatter aad geologist (University of Kansas, '26) who first went to work for Phillips Petroleum, was its chief geologist by the time he was 30. McGee did so well that when he left the company to hook up with Oilman Bob Kerr in 1937 Phillips hated to let him go, in 1943 agreed to an unusual deal to keep a string on his talents. It promised to underwrite 75% of the company's drilling costs in return for only...
Late Date. Conqueror after conqueror followed the Romans across the beachheads of the vulnerable Mediterranean island, but none bothered to investigate the mineral riches that lay beneath its soil. In 1912 the chance visit of an American geologist to a New York Public Library led to their rediscovery...
Hired by a Los Angeles engineering firm to hunt out new deposits in the southwestern U.S. and the Mexican desert, discouraged by his failure and waiting impatiently for a primping girl friend to meet him at the library, Geologist Charles Godfrey Gunther idly thumbed his way through an old volume of ancient history. His eye fell on a chapter concerning ancient Cyprus and copper. Months later, with the backing of Colonel Seeley Mudd and Philip Wiseman, Gunther began the long and finally successful search for new copper on Cyprus. Twenty years of U.S. perseverance, frugality and hardship passed before...
Among the scientific professions listed are: chemist, design engineer draftsman, geologist, geophysicist, mathematician, microbiologist, physicist and physiologist...