Shor, George G., Jr., 1923-2009
Oral history interview with George and Betty Shor, 1995 March 16.
Dr. Shor and his wife, Elizabeth (Betty) Noble Shor, discuss Shor's work with Project Mohole [an attempt to retrieve a sample of the Earth's mantle by drilling a hole through the Earth's crust to the Mohorovicic Discontinuity] in the 1950s and 60s, working with Charles Richter as a gradudate student at Cal Tech, refraction work at sea with Scripps geophysicist Russell W. Raitt, and Shor's later research career at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
George G. Shor Jr. obtained a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering (1944), a master's degree in geophysics (1948), and a Ph.D. (1954) from Caltech. He began working as a geophysicist at the Marine Physical Laboratory at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Scripps) in 1953. He married Elizabeth Noble in 1950.
Elizabeth (Betty) Noble Shor was a student at Pasadena City College, Wellesley College, and Caltech. She worked as a laboratory assistant to Charles Richter, and later, Carl L. Hubbs. She later became a historian for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where she would retire in 1983.
Raitt, Russell W., (Russell Watson), 1907-
Richter, Charles, 1900-1985
Shor, George G., Jr., 1923-2009
California Institute of Technology
Project Mohole
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Mohorovicic discontinuity
Shor, Elizabeth Noble
AIP-ICOS
University of California, San Diego. Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Mandeville Special Collections Library. 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA