History of Geophysics: Volume 5-The Earth, the Heavens and the Carnegie Institution of Washington

Copyright 1994 by the American Geophysical Union.

History of Geophysics: Volume 5-The Earth, the Heavens and the Carnegie Institution of Washington

Editor(s): Gregory A. Good

Published Online: 19 MAR 2013

Print ISBN: 9780875902791

Online ISBN: 9781118665312

DOI: 10.1029/HG005

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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the History of Geophysics Series

To reduce errors in geomagnetic measurements, the research vessel Carnegie was specially constructed of non-magnetic materials. While refueling in Apia Harbor, Samoa, November 29, 1929, an explosion occurred, destroying the ship and taking the lives of Captain J. P. Ault and the ship's cabin boy. In her 20 years, Carnegie cruised 342,681 miles of the world's oceans.

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–v)

    2. Andrew Carnegie and Charles Doolittle Walcott: The Origin and Early Years of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (pages 1–19)

      Ellis L. Yochelson

    3. Development and Promotion of the Initial Scientific Program for the Geophysical Laboratory (pages 21–28)

      H. S. Yoder

    4. Vision of a Global Physics: The Carnegie Institution and the First World Magnetic Survey (pages 29–36)

      Gregory A. Good

    5. Vilhelm Bjerknes's Duty to Produce Something Clear and Real in Meteorological Science (pages 37–46)

      Ralph Jewell

    6. Climate and History: Raphael Pumpelly's Geoarcheological Expeditions to Turkestan (pages 47–52)

      Peggy Champlin

    7. Weighing the Earth from a Submarine: The Gravity Measuring Cruise of The U.S.S. S-21 (pages 53–68)

      Naomi Oreskes

    8. Amundsen and Edmonds: Entrepreneurial and Institutional Exploration (pages 69–78)

      S. M. Silverman and Marion Edmonds Smith

    9. Expeditions and the CIW: Comments and Contentions (pages 79–87)

      Ronald E. Doel

    10. Sharing a Mountaintop: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory on Mount Wilson (pages 89–101)

      R. S. Brashear

    11. A Fox Raiding the Hedgehogs: How Henry Norris Russell Got to Mt. Wilson (pages 103–111)

      David H. Devorkin

    12. Converting an Hypothesis into a Research Program: T. C. Chamberlin, his Planetesimal Hypothesis, and its Effect on Research at the Mt. Wilson Observatory (pages 113–123)

      N. S. Hetherington

    13. Women and Women's Work at Mt. Wilson Observatory before World War II (pages 125–127)

      John Lankford

    14. Commentary on the Mt. Wilson Papers (pages 129–131)

      Owen Gingerich

    15. The Big Story: Tuve, Breit, and Ionospheric Sounding, 1923–1928 (pages 133–141)

      C. Stewart Gillmor

    16. Building a Washington Network for Atmospheric Research (pages 143–148)

      Bruce Hevly

    17. To Watheroo and Back: The DTM in Australia, 1911–1947 (pages 149–160)

      R. W. Home

    18. Some Memories of the Watheroo Magnetic Observatory (pages 161–164)

      W. D. Parkinson

    19. A Canadian Life with Geomagnetism: The Research of Frank T. Davies (pages 165–169)

      J. E. Kennedy and W. O. Kupsch

    20. Dr. C. T. Kwei and the Carnegie in China in 1930s and 1940s (pages 171–172)

      Wang Shen, Liang Baixian and Hu Xinru

    21. Chopping and Changing at the DTM 1946–1958: M. A. Tuve, Rock Magnetism, and Isotope Dating (pages 173–184)

      H. E. Le Grand

    22. Merle A. Tuve's Post-War Geophysics: Early Explosion Seismology (pages 185–214)

      Thomas D. Cornell

    23. Isotope Geology at Carnegie 1950–1970: Dating Earth Processes (pages 215–223)

      L. T. Aldrich

    24. Archival Sources for the History of Geosciences (pages 225–227)

      Deborah Day

    25. Sources for the History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington at the Office of Administration (pages 229–230)

      John Strom

    26. The Carnegie Institution of Washington's Contributions to the Physical Sciences: Archival Sources at the Huntington Library (pages 231–233)

      R. S. Brashear

    27. Sources for History of Geophysics at the Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics (page 235)

      Ronald E. Doel

    28. The Earth and Space Sciences at Carnegie: A Pictorial Sampler from the First Six Decades (pages 237–252)

      Shaun J. Hardy

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