Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 04. Dezember 1924 |
Geburtsort | New York City, U.S. |
Todesort | North_Carolina |
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Beschreibung | Frank Press (December 4, 1924 – January 29, 2020) was an American geophysicist. He was an advisor to four U.S. presidents, and later served two consecutive terms as president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1981–1993). He was the author of 160 scientific papers and co-author of the textbooks Earth and Understanding Earth. |
When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.
My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.
