University of California, San Diego. Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics.
University of California, San Diego, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics records, 1959-1963.
Consists of photocopies of early documents concerning the establishment of the Institute of Physics and Planetary Physics on the campus of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla. Includes drafts proposals written by Walter Munk for the establishment of a branch IGPP on the campus. Other correspondents include: Charles F. Coates, Louis B. Slichter, Roger Revelle, UCSD Chancellor Herbert York, University of California Vice President Harry Wellman, University of California President Clark Kerr and others. Also includes correspondence and proposals submitted to the Max C. Fleishmann Foundation requesting funds to build an IGPP building at La Jolla, and other papers and photographs documenting the design, site and construction.
The La Jolla branch of the University of California Institute of Geophysics was established in July 1959. The institute was founded by Walter H. Munk to study the planet Earth, its atmosphere, oceans and interior, using the methods of experimental and mathematical physics. It was intended as a branch of the University of California, Los Angeles Institute of Geophysics which was established in 1946. The name of the branch was changed in 1960 to the University of California San Diego Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics.
Kerr, Clark, 1911-
Munk, Walter H. (Walter Heinrich), 1917-
Revelle, Roger, 1909-1991
York, Herbert F. (Herbert Frank).
Geophysics -- History.
Coates, Charles F.
Slichter, Louis Byrne, 1896-1978-
Wellman, Harry.
AIP-ICOS
University of California, San Diego. Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Mandeville Special Collections Library. 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA