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Interview with Frank Press

Press, Frank (1983) Interview with Frank Press. [Oral History] https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechOH:OH_Press_F

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Abstract

The following interview was conducted with Dr. Frank Press on April 15, 1983, at the National Academy of Sciences, as part of the Caltech Archives' Oral History Project. Dr. Press was director of Caltech's Seismological Laboratory from 1957 to 1965. In 1965 he left Caltech to head the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1977 to 1981, he was science adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and from 1981 to 1993 served as president of the National Academy of Sciences and chairman of the National Research Council. Since 1993, Dr. Press has been a visiting professor at Cornell, Caltech, Stanford, and Indiana University, and he is currently a principal of the Washington Advisory Group. In this interview, he recalls his work with Maurice Ewing at Columbia's Lamont Geological Observatory; his directorship of Caltech's Seismological Laboratory and colleagues Charles Richter, Beno Gutenberg, and Hugo Benioff; his work on the free oscillations of the earth; and his part in establishing the worldwide network of seismographs for the detection of nuclear weapons testing.


Item Type:Oral History
Additional Information:This version was created from the interview as it appeared in Physics in Perspective 6 (2004) pp 184-196.
Keywords:Geology, seismology
Record Number:CaltechOH:OH_Press_F
Persistent URL:https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechOH:OH_Press_F
Official Citation:Press, Frank. Interview by Judith R. Goodstein. Pasadena, California, April 15, 1983. Oral History Project, California Institute of Technology Archives. Created from revised version published in Physics in Perspective, 6 (2004), 184-196. Retrieved [supply date of retrieval] from the World Wide Web: http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechOH:OH_Press_F
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Subjects:All Records
Subjects > Geology
ID Code:77
Collection:CaltechOralHistories
Deposited By: Oral Histories Administrator
Deposited On:02 Aug 2004
Last Modified:04 Oct 2019 15:23

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