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MALONE
1961-1964
Thomas Francis Malone, meteorologist, born Sioux City, Iowa, May 3, 1917. Sc.D., 1946, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Associated with Travelers Insurance of Hartford, Conn. Joined AGU 1955; elected Fellow 1962; Secretary for International Participation, 1964-1972. Received Waldo E. Smith Medal, 1986. Awarded IMO Prize, the World Meteorological Organization's highest award, 1985.
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WOOLLARD
1964-1966
George Prior Woollard, geologist-geophysicist, born Savannah, Ga., December 30, 1908; died April 8, 1979. Ph.D., 1937, Princeton Univ. Professor of Geophysics and Engineering Geology, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1949-1963; Head, Department of Geophysics, Univ. of Hawaii, 1963-1979. Joined AGU 1938; elected Fellow 1962; Chairman, Special Committee for Geological and Geophysical Study of Continents, 1947-1964. Received William Bowie Medal, 1973.
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ACKERMANN
1966-1968
William C. Ackermann, hydrologist, born Sheboygan, Wis., October 7, 1913; died June 9, 1988. B.S., 1935, Univ. of Wisconsin. Spent 19 years in TVA Water Control Planning Department. Chief of Illinois State Water Survey, 1956-1979. Joined AGU 1938; elected Fellow 1962. Received Robert E. Horton Medal, 1980. President, International Association of Scientific Hydrology, 1970-1971. Served as first advisor for water resources in Executive Office of President, 1963-1964.
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LANDSBERG
1968-1970
Helmut Erich Landsberg, meteorologist, born Frankfurt-am-Main, February 9, 1906; died December 6, 1985. Ph.D., Frankfurt Univ. U.S. Weather Bureau and NOAA, 1943-1966. Joined AGU 1934; elected Fellow 1962; President, Section of Meteorology, 1956-1959. Received William Bowie Medal, 1978.
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NEWELL
1970-1972
Homer Edward Newell, Jr., physicist, born Holyoke, Mass., March 11, 1915; died July 18, 1983. Ph.D., 1940, Univ. of Wisconsin. Naval Research Laboratory, 1944-1959. Associate Administrator of NASA, 1967-1973. Joined AGU 1949; elected Fellow 1962. First President of AGU's Section of Planetary Sciences, 1962-1964.
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ABELSON
1972-1974
Phillip Hauge Abelson, physical chemist, born Tacoma, Wash., April 27, 1913. Ph.D., 1939, Univ. of California, Berkeley. Director, Carnegie Geophysical Laboratory, 1963; President, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1971-1978. Joined AGU 1947; elected Fellow 1962. Received Waldo E. Smith Medal, 1988. Awarded Public Welfare Medal, National Academy of Science's highest honor, 1992.
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PRESS
1974-1976
Frank Press, geophysicist, born Brooklyn, N.Y., December 4, 1924. Ph.D., 1949, Columbia Univ. Joined Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 1955; Director 1957. Chairman, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965. Joined AGU 1947; elected Fellow 1962. Received William Bowie Medal, 1979. President's Science Advisor, 1976; President, National Academy of Sciences, 1981-1993.
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MAXWELL
1976-1978
Arthur Eugene Maxwell, oceanographer, born Maywood, Calif., April 11, 1925. Ph.D., 1959, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Univ. of California. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, 1965-1981. Director, Institute for Geophysics, Univ. of Texas from 1982. Joined AGU 1955; elected Fellow 1966; President, Section of Oceanography, 1970-1972.
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COX
1978-1980
Allan Verne Cox, geophysicist, born Santa Ana, Calif., December 17, 1926; died January 27, 1987. Ph.D., 1959, Univ. of California. U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, 1959-1962. Professor of Geophysics, Stanford Univ. from 1967. Joined AGU 1962; elected Fellow 1969. President, Section of Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism, 1972-1974. Received John Adam Fleming Medal, 1969.
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