Nierenberg, William Aaron, 1919-2000-
Technical reports from the William A. Nierenberg papers, 1977-1999.
Published technical reports separated from the Nierenberg papers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. Most of these reports were generated for the JASON project in the 1980s and 1990s through a contract with Mitre Corporation and regard military applications of science. Two of the reports were issued through SRI International as the contractor. Nierenberg is the author or co-author of many of the reports which include material on acid deposition, climate, missile attack scenarios, seismic discrimination, bispectra, signal processing, SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar), SEASAT, continuous land combat, tunnel detection.
Physicist and oceanographer. Nierenberg received his B. S. from the City College of New York in 1939 and his M. A. and Ph. D. degrees in physics from Columbia in 1942 and 1947. He was a research scientist with the Manhattan Project from 1942 to 1945. He was an instructor in physics at Columbia, 1946-1948, and assistant professor at the University of Michigan, 1948-1950 when he joined the faculty of the University of California in Berkeley. He served as Director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1965 to 1986. He has served on numerous scientific advisory boards to the U. S. Government and NATO.
JASON Defense Advisory Group
Acid deposition.
Combat.
Missile attack warning systems.
Radar.
Seismology
Signal processing.
Spectrum analysis.
Tunnel detection.
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Mitre Corporation.
SRI International.
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