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Walter M. Elsasser

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PhD Physics University of Göttingen

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According to Wikipedia, Walter Maurice Elsasser was a German-born American physicist, a developer of the presently accepted dynamo theory as an explanation of the Earth's magnetism. He proposed that this magnetic field resulted from electric currents induced in the fluid outer core of the Earth. He revealed the history of the Earth's magnetic field by the study of the magnetic orientation of minerals in rocks. He was also the first to suggest that the wave-like nature of matter might be investigated by electron scattering experiments using crystalline solids.

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Walter M. Elsasser's Published Works

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The Hydromagnetic Equations (1950) (319)
Sea‐Floor Spreading as Thermal Convection (1971) (312)
Induction Effects in Terrestrial Magnetism Part I. Theory (1946) (291)
Convection and stress propagation in the upper mantle. (1969) (263)
Hydromagnetic Dynamo Theory (1956) (230)
Cosmic-Ray Intensity and Geomagnetism (1956) (197)
Mean Absorption and Equivalent Absorption Coefficient of a Band Spectrum (1938) (154)
The Earth's Interior and Geomagnetism (1950) (153)
Induction Effects in Terrestrial Magnetism Part II. The Secular Variation (1946) (129)
The Theory of Rotating Fluids: Cambridge Monograph on Mechanics and Applied Mathematics (1969) (101)
Attenuation in a Dielectric Circular Rod (1949) (100)
Reflections on a Theory of Organisms: Holism in Biology (1987) (97)
Atmospheric radiation tables (1960) (84)
Induction Effects in Terrestrial Magnetism. Part III. Electric Modes (1947) (82)
Origin of the Earth's Magnetic Field (1939) (80)
The depth of mantle convection (1979) (79)
The Physical Foundation of Biology (1959) (77)
Acausal phenomena in physics and biology: a case for reconstruction. (1969) (56)
On Quantum Measurements and the Role of the Uncertainty Relations in Statistical Mechanics (1937) (56)
Outline of a theory of cellular heterogeneity. (1984) (55)
A Form of Logic Suited for Biology (1981) (55)
Quantum-Theoretical Densities of Solids at Extreme Compression. (1951) (46)
Far Infrared Absorption of Atmospheric Water Vapor (1938) (46)
The chief abstractions of biology (1975) (45)
STRUCTURE AND VARIABILITY (1958) (43)
Hydromagnetism. I. A Review (1955) (38)
Atom and Organism (1967) (38)
Hydromagnetism. II. A Review (1956) (37)
Atom and organism : a new approach to theoretical biology (1966) (36)
Principles of a new biological theory: a summary. (1981) (36)
Note on Atmospheric Absorption Caused by the Rotational Water Band (1938) (32)
DIMENSIONAL RELATIONS IN MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS (1954) (32)
Two‐layer model of upper‐mantle circulation (1971) (31)
Note on the Internal Structure of the Moon. (1959) (29)
Quanta and the concept of organismic law. (1961) (23)
A Statistical Analysis of the Earth's Internal Magnetic Field (1941) (22)
Memoirs of a physicist in the atomic age (1978) (21)
Causes of motions in the Earth's core (1950) (19)
The Earth as a Dynamo (1958) (18)
NEW VALUES FOR THE INFRARED ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT OF ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR (1938) (13)
Nonuniform rotation of the Earth and geomagnetic drift (1955) (13)
Physical aspects of non-mechanistic biological theory (1962) (13)
Synopsis of organismic theory. (1964) (12)
The mathematical expression of generalized complementarity. (1969) (10)
The other side of molecular biology. (1982) (9)
Biological application of the statistical concepts used in the Second Law. (1983) (8)
Quantum Mechanics, Amplifying Processes, and Living Matter (1951) (7)
Interpretation of heat flow equality (1967) (6)
A HEAT RADIATION TELESCOPE AND THE MEASUREMENT OF THE INFRARED EMISSION OF THE ATMOSPHERE (1941) (6)
Note on evolution in organismic theory. (1963) (6)
Submarine trenches and deformation. (1968) (6)
Non-Uniformity of the Earth's Rotation and Geomagnetism (1949) (6)
A model of biological indeterminacy. (1972) (6)
Fluid Motions near the Core Boundary and the Irregular Variations in the Earth's Rotation. (1954) (5)
Theory of quantum-mechanical description. (1968) (5)
The Newtonian Universe. (1960) (4)
RADIATIVE COOLING IN THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE (1940) (4)
A Reformulation of Bergson's Theory of Memory (1953) (3)
Correction [ to “The depth of mantle convection”] (1979) (3)
The so-called folded mountains (1970) (3)
Viscous stratification of the earth and convection (1972) (3)
Existence of an asthenosphere (1971) (2)
A natural philosophy of quantum mechanics based on induction (1973) (2)
On some properties of the water-vapor spectrum and their relations to atmospheric radiation (1937) (2)
THE TERRESTRIAL DYNAMO. (1957) (2)
The Self-Consistent Field and Bohr's Nuclear Model (1937) (2)
A biological theory of finite classes (1979) (1)
The Transition from Theoretical Physics into Theoretical Biology (1972) (1)
Taxonomy and molecular structure (1978) (1)
11 – The Diffraction of Slow Neutrons by Crystalline Substances* (1966) (1)
Semiformal representation of organismic concepts. (1965) (1)
Fossils, Early Life, and Atmospheric History: Discussion (1965) (1)
The Earth's Magnetism (1956) (1)
CHAPTER 2 – INFORMATION (1958) (1)
True Magnitude of the Geomagnetic Secular Variation (1950) (1)
A contribution to the theory of memory (1979) (1)
Awards presented at Fifty‐Fourth Annual Meeting (1973) (0)
CHAPTER 1 – FEEDBACK AND CONTROL (1958) (0)
Magnetism and the Cosmos. NATO Advanced Study Institute, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, April 1965. W. R. Hindmarsh, F. J. Lowes, P. H. Roberts, and S. K. Runcorn, Eds. Elsevier, New York, 1967. 450 pp., illus. $27.50 (1967) (0)
The natural philosophy of holism (1986) (0)
Comment by Walter M. Elsasser (1983) (0)
CHAPTER 3 – STORAGE AND MEMORY (1958) (0)
The depth of mantle convection. [earth models] (1979) (0)
Electric Quadrupole of the Earth (1946) (0)
Letter to the editor. (1971) (0)
MyLife: RecollectionsofaNobelLaureate and MemoirsofaPhysicistintheAtomicAge (1981) (0)
Cooling of the upper mantle as energy source of convection (1974) (0)
The Newtonian Universe (1960) (0)
Meteorology: Dynamic Meteorology . By Bernhard Haurwitz. 365 pp. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1941. $4.00. (1941) (0)
Tenth presentation John Adam Fleming Medel to Walter M. Elsasser (1971) (0)
Books Received (1960) (0)
The Shift to Metric (1968) (0)
Elsasser's memoirs (1978) (0)
Magnetic Fields: Magnetism and the Cosmos . NATO Advanced Study Institute, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, April 1965. W. R. Hindmarsh, F. J. Lowes, P. H. Roberts, and S. K. Runcorn, Eds. Elsevier, New York, 1967. 450 pp., illus. $27.50. (1967) (0)
Changing norms: before and after kuhn. (1977) (0)
Submarine Trenches and Deformation (1968) (0)
Is Radiative Cloud Cooling a Significant Phenomenon in the Atmosphere (1940) (0)
Book Review:Erwin Schrodinger. An Introduction to His Writings. William T. Scott (1968) (0)
CHAPTER 5 – MICROSCOPIC MEASUREMENT (1958) (0)

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