Oliver, J. E. (Jack Ertle), 1923-2011
Jack Oliver papers, 1911-2004.
This collection contains a variety of documents relating to Jack Oliver's time at Cornell University, and includes papers and charts from various seismological events, lecture notes and records of courses taught by Oliver, correspondence, committee minutes, guide books, papers and slides from the Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP), documentation of conferences and symposiums, as well as bound publications written by Oliver, including the drafts of his 1996 book, "Shocks and Rocks," as well as his 1998 autobiography, "Shakespeare Got It Wrong: It's Not "to Be", It's "to Do!": the autobiographical memoirs of a lucky geophysicist."
Ph.D., geophysics (Columbia University, 1953). Cornell University, chair of the geophysics department (1971- ). Co-founded (with Sidney Kaufman) the first national program using reflection seismology to explore Earth's continental crust, the Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP).
Oliver, J. E. (Jack Ertle), 1923-2011
Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (U.S.)
Cornell University -- Faculty.
Seismology
Autobiographies. aat
Lecture notes. aat
AIP-ICOS
Cornell University. Carl A. Kroch Library. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. 2B Carl A Kroch Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA