Wallace, R. E. (Robert Earl), 1916-2007
Earthquakes, minerals and me with the USGS, 1942-1995: an oral history interview with Robert E. Wallace, 1995.
Topics include his early family life and education through graduate school; joining the USGA and doing research in Alaska; teaching and field work; geologic mapping in Nevada; formulating a national earthquake program; development of the USGS Earthquake Program; earthquake efforts of other institutions; his memorable trips to Turkey and the Middle East in the 1960s and other trips throughout his career; USGS Directors: William Wrather, Thomas Nolan, William Pecora, V. E. McKelvey, Henry W.Menard, Dallas Peck, and Gordon Eaton; his retirement and reflections.
Geologist, U. S. Geological Survey, 1942-1995.
Wallace, R. E. (Robert Earl), 1916-2007
Eaton, Gordon P.
McKelvey, V. E. (Vincent Ellis), 1916-
Menard, Henry W. (Henry William), 1920-1986
Nolan, Thomas B. (Thomas Brennan), 1901-
Peck, Dallas L. (Dallas Lynn), 1929-
Pecora, William T.
Wrather, William Embry, 1883-1963.
Geological Survey (U.S.) -- History.
Science and state -- United States.
Earthquakes -- Research.
Seismology
Scott, Stanley, 1921- interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA