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Bullard, Edward Crisp, Sir, 1907-1980.
Edward C. Bullard papers on Maurice Ewing, 1923-1980.
These research notes on William Maurice Ewing (1906-1974), Professor of Geology at Columbia University, 1944-1974, and Director of the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, 1949-1972, were compiled by Sir Edward Crisp Bullard for his "Biographical Notice" for The Royal Society, 1975. The materials are mostly correspondence with Ewing's colleagues and family, corrected drafts of the memoir, photographs, and approximately 250 reprints of scientific papers by Ewing, arranged chronologically, 1930-1977.
Bullard began his research at Cambridge, was seconded to the Admiralty during the Second World War, returned to Cambridge and after a brief tenure of the Professorship of Physics at Toronto, became in 1953 Directory of the National Physical Laboratory. In 1956 he returned to the Cambridge Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, remaining there until his retirmement in 1974. His links with American had been strong throughout his career and he spent regular periods of research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego; after his retirement he and his second wife became American residents living at La Jolla. Among Bullards important research interests were explosion seismology on land and at sea, marine and terrestrial heat flow, dynamo theory, continental drift and plate tectonics. He was active also in development computer aplications for the processing of large amounts of observational data. Throughout his life he took part in sea-going expeditions, not to mention hs earliest famous research safari in Africa for gravity determinations in 1933-34. Bullard served on many goverment and professional committees as an advisor on science policy, and was also a consultant to several companies notably Shell and IBM UK (of which he also was a director). In addition, he had a strong sense of history, shown in his assembling of material on the early days of the Cambridge Department, on Bushy House, in his own antiquarian book collection and in the leading role he played in the Roayl Soeiciety's Halley tercentenary celebrations. He was a lively writer and lecturer, and a fascinating correspondent.
Ewing, W. Maurice (William Maurice), 1906-1974
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Columbia University. Geology Dept.
Geology -- Research.
Geologists -- United States.
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Biography. ftamc
Ewing family.
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