Oral history interview with Thomas D. Aitken 1997
Oral history interview with Thomas D. Aitken 1997
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- Name
- Aitken, Thomas D (Interviewee)
- Doel, Ronald (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Thomas D. Aitken 1997
- Abstract
- Childhood: born Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, son of civil engineer, schoolteacher; Dartmouth University: undergraduate work in chemistry, 1952-1955; United States Army: Signal Corps, 1955-1957; Columbia University: School of General Studies, B.S., geology, 1959-1961; association with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory [LDEO], 1961-1994: multiple voyages at sea aboard Vema, Robert D. Conrad, re search with Argentine geologists, promotion to chief scientist aboard sea cruises, development of seismological instrumentation, computers, supervision of data reduction and interpretation; reminiscences of colleagues.
- Collection Name
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory oral history collection
- Subjects
- Seismology--Research; Aitken, Thomas D; Columbia University; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1997
- Note (Biographical)
- Geophysicist.
- Note
- Interviewed by Ronald Doel on March 27 and December 22, 1997.
- Note (Provenance)
- Thomas D. Aitken, Gift 1998
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 13571944
- Also In
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-aygq-8z66
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.