Word: geophysicist
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...leave nuclear waste lying around indefinitely," geophysicist Sir Edward Bullard told a crowd of 250 last night at the Science Center in a lecture on "Disposal of Nuclear Waste...
...Tuzo Wilson, the Canadian geophysicist who championed continental drift and plate tectonics long before many of his conservative colleagues would even consider these theories...
...Jimmy. "Frank," he intoned one morning at a senior staff meeting, "did you see the article on black holes? What do you think?" Science Adviser Frank Press, a brilliant geophysicist from M.I.T., confessed he could not fully digest the New York Times that early. The article had reported about new data gathered by one of our space probes. Well, said Carter, be sure and let him know. He was fascinated by the discussion of black holes and the speculation that they might provide answers to what holds the universe together...
...native of Brooklyn and a graduate of New York's City College, the precise, soft-spoken Press did his doctoral studies at Columbia University and worked with Geophysicist Maurice Ewing to develop a highly sensitive seismograph that can detect even the slightest earth tremors. The device, known as the Press-Ewing seismograph, is now one of the standard tools of earth scientists around the world. Press was also one of the organizers of the International Geophysical Year (IGY), which began, in 1957, as a multidisciplined, worldwide scientific investigation of the earth and the space around it. IGY eventually grew...
...parish registers, government documents, monastery records, and such physical evidence as sediment deposits in lakes and growth rings in trees. Says Lamb: "The more we know about cycles of the past, the better we can work with the highly detailed and sophisticated observations we have of our weather today." Geophysicist Willi Dansgaard of the University of Copenhagen is studying cores taken from the ice in Greenland and Antarctica to learn about temperature and precipitation through the ages. Researchers at Columbia University's Lament-Doherty Geological Observatory are examining sea-floor cores for clues to ocean temperatures and circulation...