Oral history interview with William McGill 1997
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- Name
- McGill, William J. (William James), 1922-1997 (Interviewee)
- Doel, Ronald (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with William McGill 1997
- Abstract
- Childhood: born New York City, son of vaudeville musician; Fordham University: psychology, 1939-1943; work at Burndy Engineering, Los Angeles, 1944-1945; Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]: doctorate, psychology, research at Lincoln Laboratory; expulsion from MIT; Columbia University: professor, economics and psychology, 1956-1964; research at Scripps Institute of Ocean ography; chancellor, University of California at San Diego [UCSD]; president, Columbia University; role in student movement at UCSD, Columbia, 1968; association with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: budget issues, split from Columbia, 1972; member of board of directors, Texaco, 1973; reminiscences of colleagues.
- Collection Name
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory oral history collection
- Subjects
- McGill, William J. (William James), 1922-1997; Columbia University; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Scripps Institution of Oceanography; University of California, San Diego
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1997
- Note
- Interviewed by Ronald Doel on September 12 and September 15, 1997.
- Note (Provenance)
- William McGill, Gift 1997
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 13686087
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-ah91-m196
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.