Skating on Thin Ice - Hardcover

Skating on Thin Ice : An Autobiography of a Life in Science

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Walter H. Adey, PhD, the son of blue-collar parents, immigrants from fishing outports of Newfoundland, was raised in Depression-era exurban Boston. With a sea-going turned carpenter father, and with an always open basement shop and a youthful freedom created by the 2nd World War, he became a hands-on 'jack of all trades' teenager. Lured to MIT by the 'science won the war' atmosphere of the late 1940s, he constructed a cyclotron in his basement that became a bachelor's thesis at MIT. Moving into graduate school in Geophysics at MIT, the pull of maritime ancestry and a closet-scholar dad's exciting view of the maritime world, he shifted to marine biology, taking biology at nearby Harvard. A PhD thesis on the Maine Coast followed, with a fellowship from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Thesis successful, while joining a well-known phycology professor from the University of Michigan, he received a PhD and moved on to fifty-one years as a research scientist and curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. Artikel-Nr. 9798891278677

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