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- Bachelors Physics University of California, Berkeley
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- Long-Wave Elastic Anisotropy Produced by Horizontal Layering (1962) (1525)
- The Resolving Power of Gross Earth Data (1968) (1338)
- Uniqueness in the inversion of inaccurate gross Earth data (1970) (1309)
- Numerical Applications of a Formalism for Geophysical Inverse Problems (1967) (859)
- Propagator matrices in elastic wave and vibration problems (1966) (558)
- Possible forms of seismic anisotropy of the uppermost mantle under oceans (1965) (396)
- Moment Tensors and other Phenomenological Descriptions of Seismic Sources—I. Continuous Displacements (1976) (333)
- A class of self-sustaining dissipative spherical dynamos (1958) (283)
- Foundations of geomagnetism (1996) (280)
- Kinematics of geomagnetic secular variation in a perfectly conducting core (1968) (266)
- A geometrical picture of anisotropic elastic tensors (1970) (215)
- Magnetic Anomalies over Oceanic Ridges (1964) (212)
- Harmonic splines for geomagnetic modelling (1982) (204)
- Poloidal and toroidal fields in geomagnetic field modeling (1986) (179)
- Bayesian inference in geomagnetism (1988) (158)
- THE ROTATIONAL SPLITTING OF THE FREE OSCILLATIONS OF THE EARTH. (1961) (139)
- Non‐uniqueness of the external geomagnetic field determined by surface intensity measurements (1970) (136)
- Inference from Inadequate and Inaccurate Data, III. (1970) (130)
- Converting Vector and Tensor Equations to Scalar Equations in Spherical Coordinates (1967) (119)
- Interpreting the seismic glut moments of total degree two or less (1977) (115)
- Application of mantle filter theory to the magnetic jerk of 1969 (1983) (107)
- The region on the core—mantle boundary where a geostrophic velocity field can be determined from frozen-flux magnetic data (1986) (103)
- Geographical interpretation of measurements of average phase velocities of surface waves over great circular and great semi-circular paths (1964) (96)
- Steady flows at the top of the core from geomagnetic field models: The steady motions theorem (1985) (86)
- Linearized Plasma Oscillations in Arbitrary Electron Velocity Distributions (1960) (72)
- Gross thermodynamics of heat engines in deep interior of Earth. (1975) (70)
- APPLICATION OF A NON-LINEAR BOUNDARY-VALUE PROBLEM FOR LAPLACE'S EQUATION TO GRAVITY AND GEOMAGNETIC INTENSITY SURVEYS (1968) (68)
- Inference from inadequate and inaccurate data, I. (1970) (66)
- ON COWLING'S THEOREM ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF SELF-MAINTAINED AXISYMMETRIC HOMOGENEOUS DYNAMOS. (1956) (65)
- Seismic sources with observable glut moments of spatial degree two (1977) (61)
- Comparing hard and soft prior bounds in geophysical inverse problems (1987) (60)
- The Axisymmetric Self-Exicited Fluid Dynamo. (1957) (50)
- The electric field produced in the mantle by the dynamo in the core (1982) (34)
- Potentials for tangent tensor fields on spheroids (1966) (33)
- Approximate solutions to the inverse normal mode problem (1968) (30)
- The propagation of short elastic surface waves on a slowly rotating earth (1962) (26)
- Constructing P-velocity models to fit restricted sets of travel-time data (1969) (26)
- Inference from Inadequate and Inaccurate Data, II. (1970) (23)
- Sky-hook: old idea. (1967) (22)
- On the relative importance of the driving forces of plate motion (1981) (22)
- Completeness of inertial modes of an incompressible inviscid fluid in a corotating ellipsoid. (2016) (22)
- The External Electric Field of a Rotating Magnet. (1956) (20)
- Confidence set interference with a prior quadratic bound. [in geophysics (1989) (20)
- Determination of the external geomagnetic field from intensity measurements (1974) (18)
- Electrical and Curvature Responses of the Avena Coleoptile to Unilateral Illumination. (1952) (17)
- Linearized Plasma Oscillations in Arbitrary Electron Distributions (1960) (17)
- On the difference between the average values of Br² in the Atlantic and Pacific hemispheres (1996) (16)
- The effect of the earth's rotation on the propagation of ocean waves over long distances (1962) (15)
- Comparing the jerk with other global models of the geomagnetic field from 1960 to 1978 (1987) (14)
- Confidence Set Inference with a Prior Quadratic Bound ,,p--y~>~ L*&- (1988) (13)
- Trimming and procrastination as inversion techniques (1996) (12)
- Reply: Limits of validity of first-order perturbation theory for quasi-P velocity in weakly anisotropic media (1982) (12)
- A six-parameter statistical model of the Earth's magnetic field (1997) (11)
- CXLII. On the application of eigenfunction expansions to the problem of the thermal instability of a fluid sphere heated within (1955) (10)
- Isotropic probability measures in infinite-dimensional spaces. (1987) (9)
- The field lines of an axisymmetric magnetic field (1988) (9)
- The Earth's core and geomagnetism (1964) (9)
- Some models of the geomagnetic field in western Europe from 1960 to 1980 (1985) (8)
- Critique of “the resonant structure of the solar system” by A.M. Molchanov (1969) (8)
- The relationship of auxin to electrically induced growth responses in the Avena coleoptile. (1951) (7)
- 1986 Fleming Medalist George Backus (1987) (2)
- Is the non-dipole magnetic field random? (1996) (2)
- A Computational Problem Encountered in a Study of the Earths Normal Modes (1899) (2)
- The Topping Algorithm for Calculating Extrema of Polynomials on Subsets of $R^n $ (1980) (2)
- A note on the potential flow past a lemniscate and a general method of Milne-Thomson (1968) (2)
- Reply [to “Remarks on paper by G. E. Backus, ‘Long‐wave elastic anisotropy produced by horizontal layering’”] (1963) (1)
- An L form of Bernstein's inequality. (1979) (1)
- LOW LEVEL EARTH MOTION (1970) (1)
- The Existence and Uniqueness of the Velocity Correlation Derivative in Chandrasekhar's Theory of Turbulence (1957) (1)
- A computational proplem encountered in a study of the earth's normal modes (1968) (1)
- A review of: "Free oscillations of the earth" (1982) (0)
- THE APRIL MEETING IN CHICAGO The four hundred sixty-ninth meeting of the American Mathe- (2007) (0)
- Sky-hook. (1966) (0)
- Response : Sky-Hook (1966) (0)
- Response : Sky-Hook: Old Idea (1967) (0)
- Report of the panel on geopotential fields: Magnetic field, section 9 (1991) (0)
- Main Geomagnetic Field Models from Oersted and Magsat Data Via a Rigorous General Inverse Theory with Error Bounds (1999) (0)
- (spherical harmonics/bounds for polynomial derivatives/differentiating surface harmonic expansions) (0)
- Oil shale: conservation or development. (1967) (0)
- Modeling currents at satellite altitudes (1985) (0)
- Note on Product Integrals (1966) (0)
- Contributions from geomagnetic inverse theory to the study of hydromagnetic conditions near the core-mantle boundary (1991) (0)
- Thirtieth Award of the William Bowie Medal, April 8, 1968 (1968) (0)
- The scientific case for magnetic field satellites (1987) (0)
- Le Mouel receives Fleming Medal (1998) (0)
- Hydromagnetic conditions near the core-mantle boundary (1995) (0)
- Isotropic probability measures in infinite dimensional spaces: Inverse problems/prior information/stochastic inversion (1987) (0)
- ( NASA-CR-199296 ) HYOROMAGNETIC CONDITIONS NEAR THE CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY Final Report (2008) (0)
- Environmental implications of animal production technology. (1991) (0)
- Does the geoid drift west (1985) (0)
- the NATIONAL OF Inference from Inadequate and Inaccurate Data, II* (0)
- Modeling the US Healthcare System - Predicting the Consequences of Policy Decisions through Computational Models (2006) (0)
- Reply [to “Comment on ‘Nonuniqueness of the external geomagnetic field determined by surface intensity measurements’ by George E. Backus”] (1992) (0)
- REMARKS ON THE ADIABATIC INVARIANCE OF THE ORBITAL MOMENT OF CHARGED PARTICLES (1960) (0)
- Oil Shale: Conservation or Development (1967) (0)
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