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Top Planetary Scientist to Lead Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger and Provost John H. Coatsworth have named Sean C. Solomon, a leading geophysicist whose research has combined studies of the deep earth with missions to the moon and the solar system’s inner planets, to be director of Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Solomon, a research scientist and director emeritus at…
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John Oliver, a Father of Plate Tectonics, Dies
Dr. John Ertle “Jack” Oliver, a geophysicist with roots at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory whose research helped revolutionize our understanding of the basic forces shaping the planet, died of cancer at his home in Ithaca, N.Y., on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. He was 87. Together with fellow Lamonters Bryan Isacks and Lynn Sykes, he wrote a…
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