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Rubin, Morton Joseph, 1917-2004
Oral history interview with Morton Rubin, 14 December 1991.
Topics include: family and childhood; undergraduate education in the 1930s; entry into meteorology as an observer for the U.S. Weather Bureau in Philadelphia; the meteorology program at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in the early 1940s; his wartime position as meteorologist for Pan American Grace Airways in Peru and Chile; subsequent work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on the Southern Hemisphere Analysis Project; his year spent in Southern Hemisphere research in South Africa; posting to South America to assemble upper air data for the International Geophysical Year (IGY); first assignment on a major multi-national project (International Weather Central) for the IGY in Antarctica; his involvement with the Special Committee on Antarctic Research; comments on his Soviet scientific colleagues in Antarctica and his own research there; assignment in Washington, DC, as head of the Polar Research Group in the Weather Bureau; as chair of the Working Group on Meteorology for SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research); as research administrator at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); as convener of polar meteorology commission of International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (IAMAP); work at World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in support of the Joint Organizing Committee for the Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP), First GARP Global Experiment (FGGE), Polar Experiment (POLEX) and an Alpine experiment; visiting scholar at Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, University; paper on the weather conditions for the Cook and Bellingshausen Expeditions; and professional association with the American Geophysical Union (AGU). "A Weather Man for All Seasons " by Harry Rubin, unpublished manuscript, available in the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Archives.
Meteorologist.
Rubin, Morton Joseph, 1917-2004
American Geophysical Union
Global Atmospheric Research Programme
International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pan American-Grace Airways
Pennsylvania State University
Scott Polar Research Institute
United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
United States. Weather Bureau
World Meteorological Organization
International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958
Meteorology
World War, 1939-1945
Antarctica
Chile.
Peru.
South Africa. fast
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Cartwright, Gordon D. interviewer
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