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Oral history interview with Gleb B. Udintsev [electronic resource], 1997

Creator: Udint︠s︡ev, G. B.
Project: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory oral history collection.
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Phys. Desc. :sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Earth scientist.

Scope and Contents

Childhood: Moscow, political unrest; Moscow Tourist Club, geographical studies; air force service, navigator, 1941-1945; Moscow Hydrometeorological Institute: student, researcher, 1941-1976; Moscow University geography department, oceanography, Ph.D, 1952; seafloor geomorphology; Polar Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, research expeditions; International Geophysical Year, 1957; Assembly of Geophysical Union, Los Angeles, 1963; international scientific community relations; information exchange; United States visits, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute; Soviet scientific research guidelines; Academy of Sciences seafloor geomorphology and tectonics laboratory head, 1965; Soviet Geophysical Committee; lithospheric plate tectonics theory; atlas editor; V. I. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry researcher; Academy of Sciences member; government funding; article publishing; colleague reminiscences.

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Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1997

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