Childhood: born Chester, New Jersey, son of grocer; Muhlenberg College: B.S., physics, 1944-1950; Merchant Marines, 1945-1947; association with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory [LDEO]: participation in International Geophysical Year program, seismological research aboard Vema, Caryn in Africa, Strait of Gibralter, Bermuda; research in Belgium; Columbia University: M.S., PhD., geophysics, 1957; form ation of Alpine Geophysical Association; seismological research for National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]L Apollo II, Viking I, Surveyor missions; professor, geology and seismology, Columbia University, University of Hawaii; seismological work for Rondout Associates, 1981; reminiscences of colleagues.
Seismology; Sutton, George H., 1927-; Columbia University; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Vema (Ship); United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Format
oral histories; sound recordings
Genre
Interviews
Date
1997
Note (Biographical)
Geophysicist.
Note
Interviewed by Ronald Doel and Tanya Levin on December 30, 1996, and June 3, 1997.