Leon Theremin
Russian inventor, physicist, and musician (1896-1993)
Frank Press
American geophysicist
Frank Presswas an American geophysicist. He was an advisor to four U.S. presidents, and later served two consecutive terms as president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1981-1993).
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Frank Presswas an American geophysicist. He was an advisor to four U.S. presidents, and later served two consecutive terms as president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1981-1993). He was the author of 160 scientific papers and co-author of the textbooks Earth and Understanding Earth.
Press served on the President’s Science Advisory Committee during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and was appointed by President Richard Nixon to the National Science Board. In 1977 he was appointed President Jimmy Carter’s Science Advisor and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, serving until 1981.
7 Quotes by Frank Press
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I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.
Frank PressAmerican geophysicist
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You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory – what’s going on, what the opportunities are there – you talk about your own research.
Frank PressAmerican geophysicist
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When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.
Frank PressAmerican geophysicist
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For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.
Frank PressAmerican geophysicist
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Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.
Frank PressAmerican geophysicist
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My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.
Frank PressAmerican geophysicist
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It’s a difficult question of relations between people.
Frank PressAmerican geophysicist