Malone, Thomas F.
Oral history interview with Thomas F. Malone, 1995 January 4.
In this interview, Thomas Malone discusses his career in meteorology and geophysics. Topics discussed include: South Dakota School of Mines; weather forecasting; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Bernhard Haurwitz; Jim Austin; Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory; Charlie Brooks; Athelstan Spilhaus; George Wadsworth; Henry Houghton; World War II; Harry Wexler; Ken Spengler; Carl Rossby; John von Neumann; Compendium of Meteorology (1951); Bob Shrock; Cecil Green; Maria Telkes; Jule Charney; Taffy Bowen; Ragnar Fjr̜toft; Dave Fultz; Victor Starr; Bob White; MIT Whirlwind computer; Norm Phillips; Lloyd Berkner; Harrison Brown; Walter Munk; Roger Revelle; Fred Whipple; Office of Naval Research; Earl Droessler; Alan Waterman; Jim McDonald; Travelers Insurance Companies; American Meteorological Society; Hurd Willett; Bob Miller; Walter Orr Roberts; Edward Teller; International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU); Will Kellogg; Sydney Chapman; climate change; Paul Klopsteg; Gilbert Plass; National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) "Blue Book".
Thomas F. Malone, 1917- . Geophysicist and meteorologist. University Distinguished Scholar Emeritus at North Carolina State. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he was elected Foreign Secretary in 1978. He also chaired the Academys Geophysics Research Board and its Board on Atmospheric Physics and Climate. In 1970 he became professor of physics at the University of Connecticut. He served as national president of both the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union.
Austin, James M. (James Murdoch), 1915-2000
Berkner, Lloyd V. (Lloyd Viel), 1905-1967
Bowen, E. G.
Brooks, Charles Franklin, 1891-1958
Brown, Harrison, 1917-1986
Chapman, Sydney, 1888-1970
Charney, Jule G.
Droessler, Earl G.
Fjr̜toft, Ragnar
Fultz, Dave, 1921-
Green, Cecil Howard, 1900-2003
Haurwitz, Bernhard.
Houghton, Henry G.
Kellogg, William W. (William Welch), 1917-
Klopsteg, Paul E. (Paul Ernest), 1889-
Malone, Thomas F.
McDonald, James E., 1920-
Miller, Robert C.
Munk, Walter H. (Walter Heinrich), 1917-
Phillips, Norman A., 1923-
Plass, Gilbert Norman
Revelle, Roger, 1909-1991
Roberts, Walter Orr
Rossby, Carl-Gustaf
Shrock, Robert Rakes.
Spengler, Kenneth C., 1915-2010
Spilhaus, Athelstan.
Starr, Victor P.
Telkes, Maria
Teller, Edward, 1908-2003
Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957
Wadsworth, George P. (George Proctor), 1906-
Waterman, Alan Tower, 1892-1967.
Wexler, Harry, 1911-1962
Whipple, Fred L. (Fred Lawrence), 1906-2004
White, Robert M., 1923-
Willett, Hurd C. (Hurd Curtis), 1903-
American Meteorological Society
American Meteorological Society. Committee on the Compendium of Meteorology
Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory)
International Council of Scientific Unions.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
National Center for Atmospheric Research (U.S.)
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Travelers Insurance Companies
United States. Office of Naval Research
Climatic changes
Geophysics
Meteorology
Weather forecasting.
Whirlwind computer.
World War, 1939-1945.
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Doel, Ronald Edmund, interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA