Frank Press
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Frank Press 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. He was the author of
Press in 1953
Press and Vladimir Kirillin signing the United States and USSR agreement on cooperation in science and technology
Maurice Ewing
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William Maurice "Doc" Ewing was an American geophysicist and oceanographer.
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…borough. He earned a B.S. from the City College of New York (1944) and completed his M.A. (1946) and Ph.D. (1949) degrees at Columbia University under Maurice "Doc" Ewing. As one of Ewing's two assistant professors, (with J. Lamar "Joe" Worzel as the other) Press was a co-founder of Lamont Geological Observatory (now…
Ewing in 1972
The seismometer readings from the impact made by the Apollo 17 Saturn S-IVB stage when it struck the lunar surface are viewed in the ALSEP room in the Mission Control Center at Houston by Maurice Ewing, 1972