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Press, Frank, 1924-
Frank Press papers, 1945-2013.
Papers received in 1981 include information about earthquake projects Press worked on for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA); and correspondence, minutes, reports, and budgets from the American Geophysical Union of which Press was a member and served as president, 1974-1976. His years as an Executive Council member of the National Academy of Sciences are documented in papers, programs, and minutes; and correspondence, proposals, and reports describe his consulting for several National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) projects, including Apollo, Viking, and Voyager. Correspondence, proposals, reports, and memoranda describe Press's role as chairman of the Earthquake Prediction Panel of the Office of Science and Technology in the Office of the (U.S.) President in the 1960s. Memoranda, discussion papers, reports, and minutes describe his activities as a member of the U.S. President's Science Advisory Committee, 1961-1964, and include information about space science and support of scientific research by the federal government.
Papers received in 1983 include correspondence and reports about Press's work on several ARPA projects, including the Seismological Determination of Epicenters of Nuclear Events; and agendas and minutes of the governing board of the National Academy of Sciences as well as correspondence and memoranda on marine environmental policy and rural development.
Papers recieved in 1993 document some of Press's activities as director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), 1977-1980, and include a chronological correspondence file; extensive subject files, including information on energy, environmental issues, health policy, and industrial innovation; and agendas and minutes of meetings. Also included is personal correspondence, 1958-1981; and correspondence with individuals at MIT and papers about an MIT symposium honoring Press in 1981.
Frank Press, 1924- , B.S. in physics, 1944, City College of New York; M.A. 1946 and Ph.D. 1949 in geology, Columbia University, taught geology and geophysics at Columbia University until 1955, then taught geophysics at the California Institute of Technology. He came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 where he was made professor and head of the Department of Geology and Geophysics. He was science advisor to U.S. President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981, when he became president of the National Academy of Sciences. His research in seismology included the development of the theory for understanding long-period surface waves in the earth's structure and the instrumentation to record them. He also developed techniques for seismic study of the moon and planets.
Bethe, Hans A, (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005
DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin), 1901-1994-
Ewing, W. Maurice (William Maurice), 1906-1974
Gutenberg, Beno, 1889-1960
American Geophysical Union.
Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China (U.S.)
Geological Society of America -- 1956-1975.
Geological Survey (U.S.) -- History -- 1957-1977.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Committee on MIT Research Structure.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Faculty -- Personal and professional papers.
Project Mohole.
United States. Advanced Research Projects Agency.
United States. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Lunar and Planetary Missions Board.
United States. National Science Foundation. Committee on the Role of the National Science Foundation in Basic Research.
United States. Office of Science and Technology. Ad Hoc Panel on the Safety of Underground Nuclear Testing -- 1968-1971.
United States. President's Science Advisor -- 1977-1981.
United States. President's Science Advisory Committee -- 1961-1964.
Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapon Tests (1958-1962 : Geneva, Switzerland)
IGY Symposium (1961 : Delhi, India)
Arms control.
Earthquake prediction.
Government consultants.
Lunar geology.
Planets -- Geology.
Seismology -- Study and teaching -- 1945-1981.
Underground nuclear explosions -- Detection.
Upper mantle project.
Physicists. lcsh
Apollo Soyuz Test Project.
AIP-ICOS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute Archives and Special Collections. M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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