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Frank Press's Degrees
- Bachelors Geology University of Arizona
- Masters Geophysics Columbia University
- PhD Geophysics Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Frank Press was 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 . He was the author of 160 scientific papers and co-author of the textbooks Earth and Understanding Earth.
Frank Press's Published Works
Published Works
- Elastic Waves in Layered Media (2015) (1793)
- Displacements, strains, and tilts at teleseismic distances (1965) (291)
- Earth models obtained by Monte Carlo inversion. (1968) (277)
- Excitation of the free oscillations of the Earth by earthquakes (1961) (215)
- Earth models consistent with geophysical data (1970) (179)
- Two slow surface waves across North America (1952) (169)
- Pattern recognition applied to earthquake epicenters in California (1976) (168)
- Passive Seismic Experiment (1970) (161)
- How Thick is the Lithosphere ? (1970) (151)
- Propagation of acoustic-gravity waves in the atmosphere (1962) (142)
- Geophysical tests of petrological models of the spreading lithosphere (1971) (124)
- Structure of the earth's crust. (1956) (119)
- Patterns of seismic release in the southern California region (1995) (107)
- Seismic Data from Man-Made Impacts on the Moon (1970) (104)
- DETERMINATION OF CRUSTAL STRUCTURE FROM PHASE VELOCITY OF RAYLEIGH WAVES PART I: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (1956) (98)
- Regionalized earth models (1970) (97)
- TWO‐DIMENSIONAL MODEL SEISMOLOGY (1954) (94)
- Experimental determination of earthquake fault length and rupture velocity (1961) (92)
- An investigation of mantle Rayleigh waves (1954) (92)
- Crustal structure in the California‐Nevada region (1960) (89)
- New Seismic Data on the State of the Deep Lunar Interior (1973) (87)
- Release of tectonic strain by underground nuclear explosions (1962) (84)
- The Krakatoa Air—Sea Waves: An Example of Pulse Propagation in Coupled Systems (1967) (76)
- DETERMINATION OF CRUSTAL STRUCTURE FROM PHASE VELOCITY OF RAYLEIGH WAVES: PART III: THE UNITED STATES (1959) (76)
- Propagation of elastic waves in a floating ice sheet (1951) (75)
- SECTION 9: SEISMIC VELOCITIES (1966) (72)
- Density Distribution in Earth (1968) (70)
- Crustal Structure and Surface-Wave Dispersion. Part IV: Atlantic and Pacific Ocean Basins (1955) (68)
- An Explanation of the Lake Michigan Wave of 26 June 1954. (1954) (67)
- Sn velocities and the composition of the lithosphere in the regionalized Atlantic (1973) (64)
- The Suboceanic Mantle (1969) (64)
- Seismic wave attenuation in the crust (1964) (60)
- Mantle Rayleigh waves from the Kamchatka earthquake of November 4, 1952 (1954) (57)
- CRUSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE ARCTIC REGIONS FROM THE Lg PHASE (1955) (56)
- Crustal structure and surface-wave dispersion. Part II. Solomon Islands earthquake of July 29, 1950 (1952) (55)
- Chandler Wobble, earthquakes, rotation, and geomagnetic changes (1975) (52)
- PROPAGATION OF EXPLOSIVE SOUND IN A LIQUID LAYER OVERLYING A SEMI‐INFINITE ELASTIC SOLID (1950) (52)
- Theory of Air-Coupled Flexural Waves (1951) (52)
- Velocity structure and properties of the lunar crust (1972) (51)
- Some implications on mantle and crustal structure from G waves and love waves (1959) (50)
- Ground roll coupling to atmospheric compressional waves (1951) (49)
- PROBING THE EARTH WITH NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS (1961) (47)
- Proposed use of the T phase in tsunami warning systems (1950) (45)
- A theory of microseisms with geologic applications (1948) (45)
- A fast, convenient program for computation of surface-wave dispersion curves in multilayered media (1961) (45)
- The apollo passive seismic experiment. (1969) (45)
- GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATION OF MONO BASIN, CALIFORNIA (1960) (44)
- Lunar structure and dynamics - results from the apollo passive seismic experiment (1973) (44)
- Inferences on crustal velocities and densities from P wave delays and gravity anomalies (1964) (43)
- Crustal structure and surface-wave dispersion in Africa (1956) (42)
- Crustal structure and surface-wave dispersion (1950) (42)
- Dimensions of the Source Region for Small Shallow Earthquakes (1965) (41)
- Geophysical investigations in the Colorado Delta Region (1962) (41)
- Rigidity of the Earth's Core. (1956) (41)
- Earthquake research in China (1975) (41)
- A study of diagnostic techniques for identifying earthquakes (1963) (40)
- Air‐coupled flexural waves in floating ice (1951) (40)
- Upper Mantle Structure under Oceans and Continents from Rayleigh Waves (1961) (39)
- SEISMIC MODEL STUDY OF REFRACTIONS FROM A LAYER OF FINITE THICKNESS (1954) (38)
- Lunar Crust: Structure and Composition (1972) (38)
- Rayleigh-wave evidence for the low-velocity zone in the mantle (1959) (36)
- Absorption of Rayleigh Waves in Low‐Loss Media (1957) (36)
- Further study of the T phase (1952) (36)
- A seismic wave guide phenomenon (1951) (33)
- Progress Report on Long Period Seismographs (1958) (33)
- Moonquakes and lunar tectonism (1972) (32)
- Further study of atmospheric pressure fluctuations recorded on seismographs (1953) (31)
- Model Study of Air‐Coupled Surface Waves (1955) (30)
- Sound Waves in the Atmosphere Generated by a Small Earthquake. (1951) (30)
- Surface wave dispersion and crustal structure in Antarctica and the Surrounding Oceans (1961) (30)
- The Earth's Crust and Upper Mantle: New geophysical methods are beginning to reveal essential details about the earth's outer layers. (1961) (30)
- Tide‐gage disturbances from the great eruption of Krakatoa (1955) (29)
- A long‐period seismograph system (1958) (29)
- Mitigating Natural Disasters (1999) (29)
- The Airy phase of shallow-focus submarine earthquakes (1950) (28)
- Geophysical Investigations in the Emerged and Submerged Atlantic Coastal Plain. Part V: Woods Hole, New York, and Cape May Sections (1950) (27)
- Geophysical Contrasts Between Continents and Ocean Basins (1955) (27)
- Rayleigh wave dispersion in the period range 10 to 500 seconds (1956) (26)
- Structure, composition, and properties of lunar crust. (1972) (26)
- Rayleigh-wave coupling to atmospheric compression waves (1952) (26)
- Seismic refraction measurements in the Atlantic Ocean Basin (Part one) (1949) (25)
- WAVES WITH Pn AND Sn VELOCITY AT GREAT DISTANCES. (1955) (25)
- A lunar seismic experiment (1960) (24)
- Determination of crustal structure from phase velocity of rayleigh waves, part II: San Francisco Bay region (1957) (23)
- Pattern recognition applied to uranium prospecting (1977) (22)
- Extent of the Antarctic Continent (1959) (22)
- Geophysical investigations in the emerged and submerged Atlantic coastal plain. Part VIII. Grand banks and adjacent shelves (1954) (21)
- Apollo 11 passive seismic experiment (1970) (21)
- Earthquake Surface Waves and Crustal Structure (1955) (20)
- Resonant Vibrations of the Earth (1965) (17)
- Seismic investigations - The Viking Mars Lander. (1972) (17)
- Rayleigh Wave Dispersion and Crustal Structure in the Eastern Pacific and Indian Oceans (1937) (16)
- Earth science and society (2008) (16)
- SEISMIC WAVE STUDIES OVER A HIGH‐SPEED SURFACE LAYER (1956) (15)
- Two-dimensional seismic models with continuously variable velocity depth and density functions (1960) (15)
- A mobile seismograph array (1966) (15)
- Pattern recognition applied to earthquake epicenters in California and Nevada (1977) (15)
- Seismology of the Moon and Implications on Internal Structure, Origin and Evolution (1971) (14)
- Surface waves and guided waves (1956) (14)
- On detecting soft layers in the mantle with Rayleigh waves (1963) (14)
- Crustal structure and surface-wave dispersion, Part III: Theoretical dispersion curves for suboceanic Rayleigh waves (1953) (14)
- Velocity of Lg waves in California (1956) (13)
- Moonquakes (1971) (13)
- On being a scientist. Committee on the Conduct of Science, National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. (1989) (13)
- Geophysical studies of basin structure along the eastern front of the Sierra Nevada, California (1964) (12)
- Low-speed layer in water-covered areas (1948) (12)
- Elastic wave radiation from faults in ultrasonic models (1957) (11)
- Lunar velocity structure and compositional and thermal inferences (1974) (10)
- Channel P waves IIg in the Earth's crust (1956) (10)
- SEARCH FOR SEISMIC SIGNALS AT PULSAR FREQUENCIES. (1969) (9)
- Moonquakes and lunar tectonism results from the Apollo passive seismic experiment. (1972) (9)
- Rethinking science policy. (1982) (9)
- Maintaining scientific primacy. (1983) (9)
- Further model study of the radiation of elastic waves from a dipole source (1959) (8)
- The fate of school science. (1982) (8)
- Science and Technology in the White House, 1977 to 1980: Part 2 (1981) (8)
- The role of science and engineering in mitigating natural hazards (1985) (7)
- Magnetic anomalies over oceanic structures (1952) (7)
- ATMOSPHERIC OSCILLATIONS AND RELATED SYNOPTIC PATTERNS (1954) (7)
- Earth: Fourth Edition (1974) (6)
- The need for fundamental research in seismology: A summary of the report of the panel on seismic improvement (1959) (6)
- A High technology gap? : Europe, America and Japan (1988) (6)
- Note on the variational and homogeneous layer approximations for the computation of Rayleigh-wave dispersion (1960) (6)
- Density distribution in the Earth. (1968) (6)
- Development of a Mercury Tiltmeter for Seismic Recording (1971) (5)
- Science: the best and worst of times. (1986) (5)
- NOTES ON SURFACE WAVES (1949) (5)
- The Dilemma of the Golden Age (1988) (5)
- Comments on “lunar seismograms for LM and S-IVB impacts interpreted as modulation mirage” (1972) (5)
- Science and technology in the white house, 1977 to 1980: part 2. (1981) (4)
- New arrangements for science in the universities. (1975) (4)
- Needed: Coherent Budgeting for Science and Technology (1995) (4)
- Symposium on safety assessment: the interface between science, law and regulation. Keynote address. (1984) (4)
- Towards new national policies to increase industrial innovation (1978) (4)
- A strategy for an earthquake prediction research program (1968) (4)
- President's page: Energy and geothermal resources (1976) (3)
- Volcanoes, Ice and Destructive Waves (1956) (3)
- A seismic model study of the phase velocity method of exploration (1957) (3)
- PERFORMANCE OF RESONANT SEISMOMETERS (1954) (3)
- Spectra of Free Oscillations from an Aftershock Sequence (1967) (3)
- Science and technology: the road ahead. (1978) (3)
- Zero Frequency Seismology (1966) (3)
- New cuts in agency budgets. (1981) (3)
- Earthquake prediction. (1966) (2)
- Science and technology in the white house, 1977 to 1980: part 1. (1981) (2)
- Progress Report, Seismological Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology, 1957 (1958) (2)
- Seismic-Refraction Profile across the Gulf of Maine (1953) (2)
- Science and Technology in the Carter Presidency (2010) (2)
- Lecture notebook for understanding earth (2003) (2)
- Science and the Public Welfare (1991) (2)
- Plate Tectonics and Earthquake Prediction: Contrasting Approaches in China and the United States (1975) (2)
- A note on ocean sediment thickness from surface wave dispersion (1961) (2)
- Conversion of Bosch-Omori Mechanical Seismographs to Electromagnetic Seismographs (1951) (2)
- Surface Waves as Aids in Epicenter Location (1951) (1)
- The President's Page: Science in the age of aquarius (1974) (1)
- Tenth presentation: James B. Macelwane Award to Carl I. Wunsch (1971) (1)
- Intergovernmental science and technology. (1977) (1)
- United States Science and Technology Policy (1979) (1)
- Elastic Wave Radiation from a Fault (1957) (1)
- 5. Core Technologies and the National Economy (1983) (1)
- President's page: Concerning the new AGU committees (1975) (1)
- SEISMIC EXPLORATION OF THE MOON (1963) (1)
- Rigidity of the Earth's Core (1956) (1)
- Cecil Green receives Smith Medal (1995) (1)
- Planet earth; readings from Scientific American, (1974) (1)
- Advanced materials and competitiveness (1990) (1)
- Science and technology in the 1980s. (1982) (1)
- Geophysical research and progress in exploration (1960) (1)
- Participation in the Apollo passive seismic experiment (1972) (1)
- The role of science and technology in regulation (1979) (1)
- Remarks on refraction arrivals from a layer of finite thickness (1958) (1)
- Letter from frank press, NAS (1985) (1)
- The Columbia University Seismograph Station (1950) (1)
- FOOD AND NUTRITION BOARD (1984) (1)
- Amending the national science foundation act. (1984) (0)
- An Optimistic View Of Science And The Media (1985) (0)
- Science and Technology in a Conserving Society (1979) (0)
- Presentation of the 1965 Arthur L. Day Medal to Walter H. Munk (1965) (0)
- Letter from Frank Press, National Academy of Sciences to Robert L. Sinsheimer (1985) (0)
- Earth / oleh Frank Press (1978) (0)
- President's page: Image (1975) (0)
- Earth issues reader for understanding earth, third edition, Frank Press and Raymond Siever and envionmental geology by Dorothy Merritts, Andrew de Wet and Kirsten Menking (2001) (0)
- Letter from Frank Press to Joshua Lederberg (1977) (0)
- Age and Tenure (1975) (0)
- The new realities and federal support of science. (1984) (0)
- Letter from Frank Press, National Academy of Sciences to Joshua Lederberg (1983) (0)
- President' page: New institutional arrangements for science in the universities (1976) (0)
- The need for the International Decade of Natural Hazard Reduction (1990) (0)
- Report of the annual election of the Seismological Society of America, January 8, 1972 (1958) (0)
- Letter from Frank Press to Duane Pearsall (1979) (0)
- A Plea for a Scientific Rationale for Rejection of the RDA Report −1985 (1986) (0)
- Minutes of the annual meeting of the Society, April 19 and 20, 1957 (1957) (0)
- Interview with Frank Press (1983) (0)
- Research Universities and the New Era (1999) (0)
- Intergovernmental Science and Technology (1977) (0)
- Follow-up statements onmarijuana policy and drug mythology (1983) (0)
- Minutes of the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Seismological Society of America, March 27, 1958 (1958) (0)
- Microearthquake Survey of the Southern San Andreas Fault, California (1968) (0)
- The William Bowie medal: Citation and acceptance (1979) (0)
- Priorities Belong in the Ballot Box (1989) (0)
- Response: Quality of Intramural Research (1986) (0)
- Seventh award of the Medal of the Seismological Society of America (1983) (0)
- Free Oscillations, Aftershocks, and Q (2013) (0)
- An Agenda for Technology and Policy : Technology Review (1988) (0)
- Geoscience Education as Viewed from the National Academy of Sciences (1991) (0)
- " SOlE MOE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT (0)
- Advanced materials and competitiveness (1990) (0)
- Intergovernmental science panel. (1977) (0)
- October 29th (1985) (0)
- An Ultra Short -Period Seismograph (1953) (0)
- Passive lunar seismic experiment (1964) (0)
- Foreword: Advising presidents on science and technology (1980) (0)
- Marshall Plan for Poland (1982) (0)
- President's page: AGU questionnaire (1975) (0)
- The Fate of School Science (1982) (0)
- Science and Technology Policies for the 1980s (1984) (0)
- Seismic Source as Revealed by Static Fields of Displacement, Strain, and Tilt. (1965) (0)
- Report of the Secretary: For the period March 27, 1958, to March 16, 1959 (1959) (0)
- RESEARCH IN SEISMOLOGY. (1978) (0)
- The Next Step for the Administration for U.S. Research and Innovation (1980) (0)
- Post-Doctoral Research in Seismology (1971) (0)
- Physicists in Washington (1977) (0)
- POST-DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN SEISMOLOGY (1969) (0)
- Growing up in the Golden Age of Science (1995) (0)
- Mitigating earthquakes; the federal role (1977) (0)
- Science and Technology : The Road Ahead : Science (1988) (0)
- Letter from Frank Press, National Academy of Sciences to Eugene Garfield, Institute for Scientific Information (1982) (0)
- Advising Presidents on Science and Technology (2017) (0)
- Seismology. Number 4. Crustal Structure and Surface Wave Dispersion. (1949) (0)
- Oceanographic Research At MIT in the Departments of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Meteorology. (1973) (0)
- Minutes of the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America, March 27, 28, 29, 1958 (1958) (0)
- Response : Quality of Intramural Research (1986) (0)
- Twenty-Seventh Award of the William Bowie Medal, April 20, 1965 (1965) (0)
- Letter from Frank Press, National Academy of Sciences to Marshall W. Nirenberg (1987) (0)
- MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, APRIL 19, 1918 (1957) (0)
- Symposium on microseisms : held at Arden House, Harriman, N.Y., 4-6 September 1952 (1953) (0)
- Scientific Aspects of the Nuclear Test Ban (1960) (0)
- Report of the Secretary: For the period April 19, 1957, to March 10, 1958 (1958) (0)
- A study guide to earth (1974) (0)
- The Application of Modern Physics to the Earth and Planetary Interiors. A NATO Advanced Study Institute, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, March-April 1967. S. K. Runcorn, Ed. Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1969. xvi + 692 pp., illus. $35 (1970) (0)
- Biodiversity A Joint Statement (1992) (0)
- How to Run American Science (Successfully) (1989) (0)
- Back to the Future (1985) (0)
- Science in a New Era: An Editorial (1990) (0)
- Forecast: Medicine/biotechnology; Forecast: Computer power; Forecast: Computers (1983) (0)
- Rethinking Science Policy : Science (1987) (0)
- Recent Results in Model Seismology (1955) (0)
- Report of the special referendum, July 1, 1957 (1957) (0)
- Role of the U.S. Geological Survey in federal and national science. (1979) (0)
- Seismology. Number 14. Further Study of the T Phase. (1951) (0)
- The President's Science Adviser Looks at Industrial R&D (1977) (0)
- Nutrition report and the academy. (1985) (0)
- Thermal history of the Earth: Seismic studies of geologic structure of the ocean floor (1949) (0)
- Response : Age and Tenure (1975) (0)
- STUDIES OF BASIN STRUCTURES ALONG THE EASTERN FRONT OF THE SIERRA NEVADA , CALIFORNIAt ] (2013) (0)
- Address by Frank Press, President National Academy of Sciences to a Symposium on Biotechnology for Solving Agricultural Problems, May 9, 1985 (1986) (0)
- The Corson Symposium: Gala Banquet and Closing Luncheon (2009) (0)
- Announcement of the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America (1959) (0)
- LUNAR S TRUCTURE A ND D YNAMICS- RESULTS F ROM THE APOLLO P ASSIVE S EISMIC E XPERIMENT* (1973) (0)
- Research in seismology. Annual report, 1 April 1973--31 March 1974 (1973) (0)
- Letter from Frank Press to Bernard M. Oliver, Hewlett-Packard Company (1978) (0)
- Federal funding at a time of budget austerity (1996) (0)
- Seismology. Number 9. Crustal Structure Beneath the Gulf of Maine. (1950) (0)
- The role of education in technological competitiveness (2014) (0)
- チャンドラ-運動、地震、自転速度そして地磁気変化(Nature,256,270-273,1975) (1976) (0)
- The earth and the moon /Harold Jeffreys Lecture/. (1971) (0)
- Oceanographic Research at M.I.T. in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the Department of Meteorology. (1972) (0)
- Passive seismic experiment. [Apollo 17 flight contributions to determining lunar structure by analyzing moonquake and meteoroid impact seismic signals] (1973) (0)
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