| LC control no. | n 85173496 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Revelle, Roger, 1909-1991 |
| Variant(s) | Revelle, Roger Randall Dougan, 1909-1991 |
| See also | Chief executive of: Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1909-03-07 |
| Death date | 1991-07-15 |
| Place of birth | Seattle (Wash.) |
| Place of death | San Diego (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Oceanography Climatology |
| Affiliation | Scripps Institution of Oceanography Harvard University University of California, San Diego |
| Profession or occupation | Oceanographers College teachers College administrators |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Univ. of Calif., San Diego. Scripps Instit. of Oceanography, La Jolla for His Papers, 1933-1963 (Roger Randall Dougan Revelle, 1909- ; oceanographer; director of Scripps Instit. of Ocean., 1950-1963; prof. of population policy, Harvard Univ., 1964-1970) LC data base 12-18-85 (hdg.: Revelle, Roger, 1909- ; usage: Roger Revelle) WWA, 1962-63 (Revelle, Roger; educator; b. 1909) Roger, c1996: t.p. (Roger Revelle) p. 94 (d. July 15, 1991) Wikipedia, Nov. 15, 2013: (Roger Revelle; Roger Randall Dougan Revelle (March 7, 1909 - July 15, 1991) was a scientist and scholar who was instrumental in the formative years of the University of California, San Diego and was one of the first scientists to study global warming and the movement of Earth's tectonic plates. UC San Diego's first college is named Revelle College in his honor; Revelle left Scripps in 1963 and founded the (now defunct) Center for Population Studies at Harvard University. In his over ten years there as its Director, he focused upon the application of science and technology to the problem of world hunger. In 1976 he returned to UC San Diego as Professor of Science, Technology and Public Affairs (STPA) in the school's political science department; born March 7, 1909 Seattle, Washington; died July 15, 1991 San Diego, California) A short history of SIO, March 25, 2019 ( Roger Revelle was appointed SIO's associate director in the same year [1948]; Revelle was appointed acting director in 1950, and then director in July 1951; In September 1961, Revelle left SIO to become the first science advisor to the U.S. Secretary of the Interior. Fred Noel Spiess was named acting director and then appointed director three years later when Revelle resigned the position) <https://scripps.ucsd.edu/sites/scripps.ucsd.edu/files/node/228/edit/sio-day_short_history.pdf> |
| Associated language | eng |
 |  |  |
View this record in: MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)
