Oral history interview with Taro Takahashi [electronic resource], 1997

Biographical Note

Geochemist.

Scope and Contents

Childhood: Tokyo, Japan, son of hat manufacturer; Columbia University, geochemistry; association with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory [LDEO]; research aboard Vema; association with Scripps Oceanographic Institute, 1957; work on Geochemical Ocean Sections; New York State College of Ceramics: professor, geochemistry, 1960-1962; University of Rochester: professor, geochemistry, 1962-1970; California Institute of Technology, research, seismology; contract with National Aeronautics and Space Administration: research on composition of moon’s core, 1978; Queen’s College, New York: geochemistry; return to Lamont: full-time researcher, associate director, head of geochemistry; restructuring of administration; New York University: chemical research; reminiscences of colleagues.

Subjects

• Columbia University
• Doel, Ronald, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
• Levin, Tanya, interviewer.
• Oral histories.
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Sfraga, Michael, interviewer.
• Takahashi, Taro--Interviews.
• Vema (Ship)

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1998