Worzel, J. Lamar (John Lamar), 1919-2008
John Lamar Worzel autobiography, 2001.
Personal reminiscences of a career in geophysics, much of spent at work on the ocean floor. Describes early land-based experiments in seismology with Doc Ewing and Columbus Iselin during his college years at Lehigh University; subsequent underwater seismic testing; his work in underwater photography during World War II; work and leisure activities at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute; grad school at Columbia University; Lamont Geological Observatory's early years; ocean bottom sediment drilling; formation of Palisades Geophysical Institute with Ewing and others; move to the University of Texas in Galveston and multichannel work there at the Institute of Geophysics up to his retirement in 1979. An afterword summarizes his accomplishments.
Geophysicist. Professor of geophysics, Columbia University, 1950-1972; assistant director, Lamont Geophysical Observatory, 1951-1962 and associate director, 1963-1972; professor of Geophysics and director, Earth & Planetary Science Division, Marine Biomedical Institution, University of Texas, Galveston, from 1972-1979.
Ewing, W. Maurice (William Maurice), 1906-1974
Iselin, Columbus O'Donnell, 1904-1971.
Worzel, J. Lamar (John Lamar), 1919-2008
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
University of Texas at Austin. Institute for Geophysics.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Core drilling.
Geophysics.
Research vessels.
Underwater acoustics.
Underwater photography.
Palisades Geophysical Institute.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA