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August 12, 1925 – July 19, 2006
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Wetherill, George West
George Wetherill was Director Emeritus and Staff Member of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at Carnegie Institution of Washington (1991-2006). Other institutional affiliations included University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests included planetology, geochronology, meteorites, origin and evolution of solar system, lunar history, Precambrian geology, kinetics of human lead metabolism, habitability of planetary systems.
August 12, 1925Birth, Philadelphia (Pa.).
1943 – 1946Radar Technician, United States, Navy.
1948Obtained PhB in General Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago (Ill.).
1949Obtained SB in Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago (Ill.).
1951Obtained SM in Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago (Ill.).
1953Obtained PhD in Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago (Ill.).
1953 – 1960Staff Member, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington (D.C.).
1959Visiting Professor of Geochemistry, California Institute of Technology.
1960 – 1975Professor of Geophysics and Geology (1960-1975) and Chair, Department of Planetary and Space Science (1968-1972), University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Calif.).
1962 – 1965Member, Earth Science Panel, National Science Foundation.
1969 – 1976Member, Lunar and Planetary Missions Board (1969-1970); Member, Physical Science Committee (1971-1975); Chair, Working Group for the Post-Viking Exploration of Mars (1972-1973); and Member, Board of Visitors, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1972-1976), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1970 – 1972President, Planetology Section, American Geophysical Union.
1974Member, National Academy of Sciences.
1975 – 1976President, Geochemical Society.
1975 – 2006Director (1975-1991) and Director Emeritus and Staff Member (1991-2006), Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington (D.C.).
1977 – 1980President, International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry.
1981 – 1996Editor, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science.
1982 – 1985Member, Space Science Board, National Academy of Sciences.
1983 – 1985President, Meteoritical Society.
1985 – 1995Member, Commission on Physical Sciences Mathematics and National Resources (1985-1988); Member, Executive Committee, Committee on the USSR and Eastern Europe (1986-1991); and Member, Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (1992-1995), National Research Council.
1987Vikram Sarabhai Visiting Professor and Memorial Lecturer, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India.
1997Awarded National Medal of Science.
July 19, 2006Death, Washington (D.C.).
Geophysicist.
Both employed at Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Bjerknes, J. (Jacob Aall Bonnevie), 1897-1975
Both employed at University of California, Los Angeles.
Both employed at Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Both employed at University of California, Los Angeles.
Fleming, J. A. (John Adam), 1877-1956
Both employed at Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Both employed at Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Both employed at University of California, Los Angeles.
Holstein, Theodore David, 1915-1985
Both employed at University of California, Los Angeles.
Both employed at University of California, Los Angeles.
Slichter, Louis B. (Louis Byrne), 1896-1978
Both employed at University of California, Los Angeles.
Both employed at Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Vestine, E. H. (Ernest Harry), 1906-1968
Both employed at Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Broecker, Wallace S., 1931-
Glen, William
Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Staff Member; Director; and Director Emeritus and Staff Member.
Physical Research Laboratory (Ahmadābād, India)
Vikram Sarabhai Visiting Professor and Memorial Lecturer.
United States. Navy
Radar Technician.
University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Professor of Geophysics and Geology and Department Chair.
American Geophysical Union
President, Planetology Section.
Annual Reviews, Inc.
Editor, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science.
California Institute of Technology. Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences.
Visiting Professor of Geochemistry.
Geochemical Society
President.
International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
President.
Meteoritical Society
President.
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Member and Member, Space Science Board.
National Research Council (U.S.)
Member, Commission on Physical Sciences Mathematics and National Resources; Member, Executive Committee, Committee on the USSR and Eastern Europe; and Member, Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration.
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Member, Earth Science Panel.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Member, Lunar and Planetary Missions Board; Member, Physical Science Committee; Chair, Working Group for the Post-Viking Exploration of Mars; and Member, Board of Visitors, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
University of Chicago
Obtained PhB in General Studies (1948).
University of Chicago. Department of Physics
Obtained SB (1949), SM (1951), and PhD (1953).
Responses to History of Geophysics Survey, 1997.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
William Glen's project in the history of the mass-extinction debates: oral history interviews, 1984-1994.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Wallace S. Broecker, 1995 December 29, 1997 May 8 and June 6.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA