Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1902, May 4 | Born, St. Louis, Mo. |
| 1923-1925 | Ph.D. in physics, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. |
| 1926 | Married Edith Louise Frazee (divorced 1948) |
| 1927-1928 | Studied in Berlin, Germany, as a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow |
| 1928-1946 | Professor of physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. |
| 1934-1935 | Sabbatical to attend Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University (also in 1952-1953 and 1960-1961) |
| 1942-1946 | Assistant (and eventually director), War Research Division, University of California, San Diego, Calif. |
| 1946-1952 | Director, Marine Physical Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, Calif. |
| 1946-1971 | Professor of geophysics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, Calif. |
| 1952 | Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences |
| 1958 | Married Klara Dan Von Neumann (died 1963) |
| 1960 | Hydrodynamics of Oceans and Atmospheres (Oxford: Pergamon Press. 290 pp.) |
| 1965-1967 | Vice-chancellor for academic affairs, University of California, San Diego, Calif. |
| 1966 | Awarded Alexander Agassiz Medal by National Academy of Sciences for contributions to oceanography |
| 1972 | Awarded William Bowie Medal by American Geophysical Union for outstanding contributions to fundamental geophysics |
| 1973, Oct. 23 | Died, La Jolla, Calif. |