Viktor Vacquier
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 2:51 am
Hello Linda Brown,
I hope all is going well for you.
Viktor Vacquier’s obituary (see excerpt and link below) appeared in the Los Angeles Times today.
I would think that your father, Admiral Harry Hess, Dr. Robert Sarbacher, and perhaps Jacques Bergier -- who shared a Russian-French background with him -- would have known him and his work. Plate tectonics, magnetics, ocean floor gravity anomalies, deep ocean exploration, and submarines could have been some of the areas of interest they had in common.
As ever,
Griffin
Victor Vacquier Sr. dies at 101; geophysicist was a master of magnetics
By Thomas H. Maugh II
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... rint.story
January 24, 2009
Victor Vacquier Sr., a Scripps Institution of Oceanography geophysicist who developed key instruments for mapping the Earth's magnetic fields and whose research provided a strong experimental foundation for the now widely accepted theory of plate tectonics, died of pneumonia Jan. 11 in La Jolla. He was 101.
An academic rarity who became a full professor without ever earning a doctoral degree, Vacquier was a master of magnetics, developing key instruments for the military and then adapting them for use in research.
As an electrical engineer at Gulf Research Laboratories in the 1930s, Vacquier invented the flux magnetometer, a new tool for detecting magnetic fields.
With the outbreak of World War II, he went to the Airborne Instruments Laboratory at Columbia University to oversee testing of the device. Preliminary experiments showed that it could successfully identify a submerged submarine.
I hope all is going well for you.
Viktor Vacquier’s obituary (see excerpt and link below) appeared in the Los Angeles Times today.
I would think that your father, Admiral Harry Hess, Dr. Robert Sarbacher, and perhaps Jacques Bergier -- who shared a Russian-French background with him -- would have known him and his work. Plate tectonics, magnetics, ocean floor gravity anomalies, deep ocean exploration, and submarines could have been some of the areas of interest they had in common.
As ever,
Griffin
Victor Vacquier Sr. dies at 101; geophysicist was a master of magnetics
By Thomas H. Maugh II
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... rint.story
January 24, 2009
Victor Vacquier Sr., a Scripps Institution of Oceanography geophysicist who developed key instruments for mapping the Earth's magnetic fields and whose research provided a strong experimental foundation for the now widely accepted theory of plate tectonics, died of pneumonia Jan. 11 in La Jolla. He was 101.
An academic rarity who became a full professor without ever earning a doctoral degree, Vacquier was a master of magnetics, developing key instruments for the military and then adapting them for use in research.
As an electrical engineer at Gulf Research Laboratories in the 1930s, Vacquier invented the flux magnetometer, a new tool for detecting magnetic fields.
With the outbreak of World War II, he went to the Airborne Instruments Laboratory at Columbia University to oversee testing of the device. Preliminary experiments showed that it could successfully identify a submerged submarine.