Dr. Carl Eckart to Resign

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Dr. Carl Eckart to resign April 10, 1967 Dr. Carl Eckart, Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the University of California, San Diego for the past two and one-half years, is retiring from that position to return to full-time teaching and research, it has been announced by UCSD Chancellor John S. Galbraith. Dr. Eckart, who will leave his duties as Vice Chancellor on July 1, has agreed to remain available for consultation and advice in that area. His administrative responsibilities will be assumed by Dr. Robert D. Tschirgi, Vice Chancellor of Academic Planning. Dr. Eckart's distinguished career as both a scientist and administrator has spanned more than 21 years at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the newer general campus of the University on. Torrey Pines Mesa. In 1946, he accepted appointment as Director of the Marine Physical Laboratory and as Professor of Geophysics at Scripps. Two years later he took over the duties of Director of Scripps, succeeding Dr. Harald U. Sverdrup. In 1950, he relinquished the post to again spend full-time as Director of the Marine Physical Laboratory. In 1965, Dr. Eckart was appointed by the University Board of Regents to the newly created post of Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs on the San Diego campus. In announcing Dr. Eckart's retirement from the post, Dr. Galbraith said, "During his almost two and one-half years as Vice Chancellor, Dr. Eckart has made substantial contributions to the development of this campus, and the administration and faculty are very much in his debt." Dr. Eckart received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1925 and later served on the faculty at the University of Chicago before moving to the west coast. He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1953 and has served on the Academy's Committee on Atmospheric Science, and on various special study committees of the Department of Defense. He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and holds membership in several scientific societies. At UCSD, Dr. Eckart has served as Chairman of the Academic Senate, on the Chancellor's Advisory Committee for the Irvine campus, and in the Universitywide Legislative Assembly and Academic Council. A year ago, Dr. Eckart was honored by the National Academy of Sciences for his pioneering research in oceanography. He was awarded the Academy's Alexander Agassiz Medal for his "perceptive and far-ranging analysis of the motions of the sea and the forces behind them.".

Copy Link

Recommended publications

Patronage and Science: Roger Revelle, the US Navy, And
PATRONAGE AND SCIENCE: ROGER REVELLE, THE NAVY, AND OCEANOGRAPHY AT THE SCRIPPS INSTITUTION RONALD RAINGER Department of History, Texas Tech University,Lubbock, TX 79409-1013, [email protected] Originally published as: Rainger, Ronald. "Patronage and Science: Roger Revelle, the U.S. Navy, and Oceanography at the Scripps Institution." Earth sciences history : journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society 19(1):58-89, 2000. This article is reprinted courtesy of the History of the Sciences Society from Earth Sciences History, 2000, 19:58-89. ABSTRACT In the years between 1940 and 1955, American oceanography experienced considerable change. Nowhere was that more true than at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. There Roger Revelle (1909-1991) played a major role in transforming a small, seaside laboratory into one of the leading oceanographic centers in the world. This paper explores the impact that World War II had on oceanography and his career. Through an analysis of his activities as a naval officer responsible for promoting oceanography in the navy and wartime civilian laboratories, this article examines his understanding of the relationship between military patronage and scientific research and the impact that this relationship had on disciplinary and institutional developments at Scripps. In 1947 Harald Sverdrup (1888-1957) and Roger Revelle, two of the leading oceanographers in the United States, made plans for Revelle's return to the Scripps 2 Institution of Oceanography (SIO). After six years of coordinating and promoting oceanography within the U.S. Navy, Revelle was returning to the center where he had earned his Ph.D.
[Show full text]
Seeking Signals in The
$: t j ! Ij ~ ,l IOJ I ~ , I I I! 1I I 1 " Edited by Elizabeth N. Shor Layout by jo p. griffith June 1997 Published by: Marine Physical Laboratory ofthe Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego We gratefully acknowledge the following for use of their photographs in this publication: Christine Baldwin W. Robert Cherry Defense Nuclear Agency Fritz Goro William S. Hodgkiss Alan C. Jones MPL Photo Archives SIO Archives (UCSD) Eric T. Slater SIO Reference Series 97-5 ii Contents Introduction: How MPL Came To Be Betty Shor 1 Carl Eckart and the Marine Physical Laboratory Leonard Liebermann 6 Close Encounter of the Worst Kind Fred Fisher and Christine Baldwin 9 Early Days of Seismic and Magnetic Programs at MPL Arthur D. Raft 10 Recollections of Work at the Marine Physical Laboratory: A Non-Academic Point of View Dan Gibson 23 Capricorn Expedition, 1952 Alan C. Jones 39 Que Sera Sera R. J. Smith 42 A Beginning in Undersea Research Fred Noel Spiess ....... 46 The Value of MPL to the Navy Charles B. Bishop 51 The Outhouse Fred Fisher ....... 54 Exploring the Gulf of Alaska and Beyond George G. Shor, Jr 55 Chinook Expedition, 1956 Alan C. Jones 59 Operation HARDTACK I W. Robert Cherry 62 DELTIC and DIMUS, Two Siblings Victor C. Anderson 65 MPL and ARTEMIS Victor C. Anderson 71 Early Days of MPL Christine Baldwin 78 There's Always a Way Around the Rules George G. Shor, Jr 82 iii A Saga from Graduate Student to FLIP Fred Fisher 85 Anchoring FLIP in Deep Water Earl Bronson 95 Then There was SLIP Fred Fisher ......
[Show full text]
Introducing the 1966 Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecturer
INTRODUCING THE 1966 ALFRED KORZYBSKI MEMORIAL LECTURER Eugene P. Wigner Thomas D. Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics, Princeton University, 1963 Nobel Laureate for Physics It is a very great pleasure to be called upon to say a few words about Alvin Weinberg . I have known him now for almost 25 years, but such is his modesty and inclination toward self-effacement that I know very little about him through himself . He was born in the windy city of Chicago in 1915, went to school there, both lower ones and the University, married there, and had his first job there . He is a physicist and had, among others, the great Carl Eckart as his teacher . He was just about 22 when he published his first paper, in collaboration with Eckart, on a subject of theoretical physics, then in the foreground of interest . He taught physics for a year, then became interested in biophysics . For a few years he was Research Assistant at Rashevsky's Institute at the University of Chicago and published about ten papers centered around the sub- ject of nerve conduction . Nevertheless, when the war broke out and physicists were urgently needed for the uranium project at the University of Chicago, it was natural to call on Dr . Weinberg for help, and he readily followed the call . This was an important turn in Dr . Weinberg's life . He had an opportunity to work in virgin territory, and his abilities and gifts unfolded rapidly . It was at this time that I met him . We were both members of the 8 theoretical team in charge of establishing a theory of the nuclear chain reaction as well as designing a large reactor, capable of producing large amounts of the nuclear fuel and explosive, plutonium .
[Show full text]
M-1392 Publication Title: Bush-Conant File
Publication Number: M-1392 Publication Title: Bush-Conant File Relating to the Development of the Atomic Bomb, 1940-1945 Date Published: n.d. BUSH-CONANT FILE RELATING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ATOMIC BOMB, 1940-1945 The Bush-Conant File, reproduced on the 14 rolls of this microfilm publication, M1392, documents the research and development of the atomic bomb from 1940 to 1945. These records were maintained in Dr. James B. Conant's office for himself and Dr. Vannevar Bush. Bush was director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD, 1941-46), chairman of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) prior to the establishment of OSRD (1940-41), chairman of the Military Policy Committee (1942-45) and member of the Interim Committee (May-June 1945). During this period Conant served under Bush as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee of OSRD (1941-46), chairman of the S-1 Executive Committee (1942-43), alternate chairman of the Military Policy Committee (1942-45), scientific advisor to Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves (1943-45), and member of the Interim Committee (May-June 1945). The file, which consists primarily of letters, memorandums, and reports, is part of the Records of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Record Group (RG) 227. The Bush-Conant File documents OSRD's role in promoting basic scientific research and development on nuclear fission before August 1942. In addition, the files document Bush and Conant's continuing roles, as chairman and alternate chairman of the Military Policy Committee, in overseeing the army's development of the atomic bomb during World War II and, as members of the short-lived Interim Committee, in advising on foreign policy and domestic legislation for the regulation of atomic energy immediately after the war.
[Show full text]
Quantization Conditions, 1900–1927
Quantization Conditions, 1900–1927 Anthony Duncan and Michel Janssen March 9, 2020 1 Overview We trace the evolution of quantization conditions from Max Planck’s intro- duction of a new fundamental constant (h) in his treatment of blackbody radiation in 1900 to Werner Heisenberg’s interpretation of the commutation relations of modern quantum mechanics in terms of his uncertainty principle in 1927. In the most general sense, quantum conditions are relations between classical theory and quantum theory that enable us to construct a quantum theory from a classical theory. We can distinguish two stages in the use of such conditions. In the first stage, the idea was to take classical mechanics and modify it with an additional quantum structure. This was done by cut- ting up classical phase space. This idea first arose in the period 1900–1910 in the context of new theories for black-body radiation and specific heats that involved the statistics of large collections of simple harmonic oscillators. In this context, the structure added to classical phase space was used to select equiprobable states in phase space. With the arrival of Bohr’s model of the atom in 1913, the main focus in the development of quantum theory shifted from the statistics of large numbers of oscillators or modes of the electro- magnetic field to the detailed structure of individual atoms and molecules and the spectra they produce. In that context, the additional structure of phase space was used to select a discrete subset of classically possible motions. In the second stage, after the transition to modern quantum quan- tum mechanics in 1925–1926, quantum theory was completely divorced from its classical substratum and quantum conditions became a means of con- trolling the symbolic translation of classical relations into relations between quantum-theoretical quantities, represented by matrices or operators and no longer referring to orbits in classical phase space.1 More specifically, the development we trace in this essay can be summa- rized as follows.
[Show full text]
Seeking Signals in the Sea, Recollections Of
$: t j ! Ij ~ ,l IOJ I ~ , I I I! 1I I 1 " Edited by Elizabeth N. Shor Layout by jo p. griffith June 1997 Published by: Marine Physical Laboratory ofthe Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego We gratefully acknowledge the following for use of their photographs in this publication: Christine Baldwin W. Robert Cherry Defense Nuclear Agency Fritz Goro William S. Hodgkiss Alan C. Jones MPL Photo Archives SIO Archives (UCSD) Eric T. Slater SIO Reference Series 97-5 ii Contents Introduction: How MPL Came To Be Betty Shor 1 Carl Eckart and the Marine Physical Laboratory Leonard Liebermann 6 Close Encounter of the Worst Kind Fred Fisher and Christine Baldwin 9 Early Days of Seismic and Magnetic Programs at MPL Arthur D. Raft 10 Recollections of Work at the Marine Physical Laboratory: A Non-Academic Point of View Dan Gibson 23 Capricorn Expedition, 1952 Alan C. Jones 39 Que Sera Sera R. J. Smith 42 A Beginning in Undersea Research Fred Noel Spiess ....... 46 The Value of MPL to the Navy Charles B. Bishop 51 The Outhouse Fred Fisher ....... 54 Exploring the Gulf of Alaska and Beyond George G. Shor, Jr 55 Chinook Expedition, 1956 Alan C. Jones 59 Operation HARDTACK I W. Robert Cherry 62 DELTIC and DIMUS, Two Siblings Victor C. Anderson 65 MPL and ARTEMIS Victor C. Anderson 71 Early Days of MPL Christine Baldwin 78 There's Always a Way Around the Rules George G. Shor, Jr 82 iii A Saga from Graduate Student to FLIP Fred Fisher 85 Anchoring FLIP in Deep Water Earl Bronson 95 Then There was SLIP Fred Fisher ......
[Show full text]
Alvin M. Weinberg 1915–2006
Alvin M. Weinberg 1915–2006 A Biographical Memoir by James B. Roberto and Margaret B. Nestor \©2014 National Academy of Sciences. Any opinions expressed in this memoir are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of Sciences. ALVIN MARTIN WEINBERG April 20, 1915–October 18, 2006 Elected to the NAS, 1961 Alvin Martin Weinberg, who possessed a wide-ranging curiosity and an abiding concern for the welfare of humanity, applied these traits to addressing the complex issues that arise at the intersection of science and society. As a pioneer first in the development of nuclear energy and later in a quest to understand the entire energy system, Alvin was a strong proponent of what he called the “technological fix”: bringing science and technology to bear on societal problems. Yet he also recognized Photo courtesy Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Oak Ridge National Photo courtesy that many such questions can be asked of science but cannot be answered by science alone. He combined his consideration of these “trans-scientific” questions and his By James B. Roberto extensive experience as a science administrator to assess and Margaret B. Nestor the value of scientific inquiry and to establish a set of criteria for scientific choice, especially as it related to “big science”— another of Alvin’s coinages that has passed into common use. He spoke and wrote persuasively about these and other issues that engaged his attention, creating a substantial body of work that continues to inform science and energy policymaking. Alvin began his scientific career at the University of Chicago, where he received a doctorate in mathematical biophysics in 1939.
[Show full text]
The Development of the Quantum-Mechanical Electron Theory of Metals: 1928---1933
The development of the quantum-mechanical electron theory of metals: 1S28—1933 Lillian Hoddeson and Gordon Bayrn Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, illinois 6180f Michael Eckert Deutsches Museum, Postfach 260102, 0-8000 Munich 26, Federal Republic of Germany We trace the fundamental developments and events, in their intellectual as well as institutional settings, of the emergence of the quantum-mechanical electron theory of metals from 1928 to 1933. This paper contin- ues an earlier study of the first phase of the development —from 1926 to 1928—devoted to finding the gen- eral quantum-mechanical framework. Solid state, by providing a large and ready number of concrete prob- lems, functioned during the period treated here as a target of application for the recently developed quan- tum mechanics; a rush of interrelated successes by numerous theoretical physicists, including Bethe, Bloch, Heisenberg, Peierls, Landau, Slater, and Wilson, established in these years the network of concepts that structure the modern quantum theory of solids. We focus on three examples: band theory, magnetism, and superconductivity, the former two immediate successes of the quantum theory, the latter a persistent failure in this period. The history revolves in large part around the theoretical physics institutes of the Universi- ties of Munich, under Sommerfeld, Leipzig under Heisenberg, and the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich under Pauli. The year 1933 marked both a climax and a transition; as the lay- ing of foundations reached a temporary conclusion, attention began to shift from general formulations to computation of the properties of particular solids. CONTENTS mechanics of electrons in a crystal lattice (Bloch, 1928); these were followed by the further development in Introduction 287 1928—1933 of the quantum-mechanical basis of the I.
[Show full text]
A History of Quantum Chemistry
1 Quantum Chemistry qua Physics: The Promises and Deadlocks of Using First Principles In the opening paragraph of his 1929 paper “ Quantum Mechanics of Many-Electron Systems, ” Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac announced that: The general theory of quantum mechanics is now almost complete, the imperfections that still remain being in connection with the exact fi tting in of the theory with relativity ideas. These give rise to diffi culties only when high-speed particles are involved, and are therefore of no importance in the consideration of atomic and molecular structure and ordinary chemical reac- tions, in which it is, indeed, usually suffi ciently accurate if one neglects relativity variation of mass with velocity and assumes only Coulomb forces between the various electrons and atomic nuclei. The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the diffi culty is only that the exact applica- tion of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble. It therefore becomes desirable that approximate practical methods of applying quantum mechanics should be developed, which can lead to an explanation of the main features of complex atomic systems without too much computation. (Dirac 1929, 714, emphasis ours) For most members of the community of physicists, it appeared that the solution of chemical problems amounted to no more than quantum-mechanical calculations. Physicists came under the spell of Dirac ’ s reductionist program, and quantum chem- istry came to be usually regarded as a success story of quantum mechanics.
[Show full text]
Interview Mit Klaus Hasselmann Am 15. Februar 2006
Interview mit Klaus Hasselmann am 15. Februar 2006 Autoren: H. von Storch D. Olbers ISSN 0344-9629 ISSN GKSS 2007/5 GKSS 2007/5 Interview mit Klaus Hasselmann am 15. Februar 2006 Autoren: H. von Storch (GKSS, Institut für Küstenforschung) D. Olbers (Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Bremerhaven) GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH • Geesthacht • 2007 Die Berichte der GKSS werden kostenlos abgegeben. The delivery of the GKSS reports is free of charge. Anforderungen/Requests: GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH Bibliothek/Library Postfach 11 60 D-21494 Geesthacht Germany Fax.: (49) 04152/871717 Als Manuskript vervielfältigt. Für diesen Bericht behalten wir uns alle Rechte vor. ISSN 0344-9629 GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH · Telefon (04152)87-0 Max-Planck-Straße 1 · D-21502 Geesthacht / Postfach 11 60 · D-21494 Geesthacht Vorwort Es gehört zu den Prinzipien der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, neue Wissenschaftsgebiete, die noch nicht an den Universitäten etabliert sind, aufzugreifen. Die Gründung des Max-Planck-Instituts für Meteorologie ist hierfür ein gutes Beispiel. Zu Beginn der siebziger Jahre war die Klimaforschung ein neues Wissenschaftsgebiet, das in Deutschland weder an der Hochschule noch überhaupt nachhaltig betrieben wurde. Für die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft ergab sich im Jahre 1974 Anlass, sich mit dieser Frage zu beschäftigen. Neben anderen Einrichtungen war auch die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft gefragt worden ob sie bereit sei, das Fraunhofer Institut für Radiometeorologie und Maritime Meteorologie in ihre Trägerschaft zu übernehmen, nachdem der bisherige Leiter, Prof. Karl Brooks gestorben war. Als damaliger Präsident der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft holte ich mir zunächst Rat bei zwei Wissenschaftlern ein. Der eine war Prof. Hermann Flohn, den ich in Bonn besuchte.
[Show full text]
~ Mrs Leo Ilard 2380 T Rrey Pines Road La J La, California 92038
~ .- ---=- -- -- --------- Mrs Leo ilard 2380 T rrey Pines Road La J la, California 92038 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Department of Psychology HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE Dear Mrs Szilard I would greatly appreciate a reprint of your husband's article entitled: On the decrease of entropy in a thermmdynamic system by the 1nterventian of jnte11igent beings which appeared in Behavioral Science 1964 9 3010.310 Thank you very much. Victor E. McGee, PhD Sincerelyyours, 1 \ _ R.. ·1 c_/: /Ui\ ulc-. '(, \, ~ ~.j . pY..t. \!!~ '~" ~ ~· r7i~ ~ {I [U.:> .POSTA~ !1/.M ' J -L() c;):JjiJ ~ 9~. ~~ 1ol <).Jf !lEPRlNT REQUEST" Dear Ill~ , ~4~; ~~ ~ Would you 'Please send a repr Ln of your· iP 1 Qpesti n.g a rticle OM 'fL. tAo . s t...+..JL b ~~ '--u g ~ - . &;r~~~ ~~~~~~~ · ~ appeari g in Ab. ~c::.l. , /161, 9, (1 · ~ 1 - 31 b Thank you POST CARD The Addfl~sr. to be written on this 5ide. SEVER LLS HOSPITAL, COLCHESTER. ESSEX. Do you have a spare copy of your interesting Paper? With very many thanks. Yours sincerely, ~~. /)~ P 21/0/ .SKY ~ . DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH ONE SHATTUCK STREET BOSTON, MASSAC HUSETTS 0 2 115 l would g reatly appreciate rece1vmg a reprintS of your,. article5 entitled ''()..~ ~/4r;., " · · ~~ :;!;;~~ · 1 t- ~vry~ J ~ . which appeared in . ~~ , /1&1,../fJ~ l/. (j,,S, /9!iJ (THIS Sl DE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS) dJI ~ aJ -~ ~~~ c/) (.~ af~a~7d~ ~~ t!h -t:h ~ ~~/;!~~a ~ ~--- .b?J ~ ~ ~ ,:.:tz_~ 'd ~ . ~ .5c~ J Ud CJ, ~ 30/ J 17G1. ~r (07 ~~~~:/:fc.-:, n:f/~J D~heF~ u . .,;~~' D~~~ S~OI ~ f{d/ ~ ~}hud .
[Show full text]
Carl Eckart Papers
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8wq08c2 No online items Carl Eckart Papers Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Copyright 2016 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla 92093-0175 [email protected] URL: http://libraries.ucsd.edu/collections/sca/index.html Carl Eckart Papers SMC 0022 1 Descriptive Summary Languages: English Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla 92093-0175 Title: Carl Eckart Papers Creator: Eckart, Carl Identifier/Call Number: SMC 0022 Physical Description: 1.85 Linear feet(5 archives boxes) Date (inclusive): 1941-1973 Abstract: A small collection of the correspondence and professional papers of the physicist, physical oceanographer and geophysicist Carl Eckart. Related Materials The bulk of Carl Eckart's papers are available at the Library of Congress (MSS 65557). For additional material at UC San Diego related to Eckart, see the SIO Biographical Files (SAC 5) and the SIO Office of Director Records (SAC 2) at Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library. Scope and Content of Collection A small collection of the correspondence and professional papers of the physicist, physical oceanographer and geophysicist Carl Eckart, including subject files, notebooks, writings and reports. There are also a few files of teaching materials, photographs and slides. Preferred Citation Carl Eckart Papers. SMC 22. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. OFF-SITE STORAGE COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS. Biography Carl Henry Eckart (1902-1973) received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Washington University and a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton in 1925.
[Show full text]