LC control no. | n 91018200 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Bull, Colin |
Variant(s) | Bull, C. (Colin) |
See also | Founded corporate body: Colin Bull Polar Books |
Associated country | Great Britain England New Zealand United States |
Associated place | Wellington (N.Z.) Columbus (Ohio) Polar regions |
Birth date | 1928-06-13 |
Death date | 2010-09-07 |
Place of birth | Birmingham (England) |
Place of death | Bainbridge Island (Wash.) |
Field of activity | Geophysics |
Affiliation | University of Birmingham Victoria University of Wellington Ohio State University |
Profession or occupation | Geophysicists |
Found in | Giovinetto, M.B. Summary and analyses of surface mass balance compilations for Antarctica, 1960-1985, 1987: t.p. (Colin Bull) errata (C. Bull) Seattle times WWW site, Oct. 14, 2010 (in obituary published Oct. 8, 2010: Colin Bull; d. Sept. 7 [2010] at the age of 82 while on an Alaskan cruise; helped found what is now the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State Univ.; participated in more than 25 polar expeditions) Arctic, Dec. 2010: p.483-4 (Colin Bruce Bradley Bull; born on 13 June 1928 in Birmingham, United Kingdom; in 1945 he enrolled at the University of Birmingham and earned a Bachelor of Science in physics; doctorate in solid-state physics in 1952; joined polar expeditions as a geophysicist-glaciologist and meteorologist; emigrated to New Zealand soon after he married in 1956; senior lectureship in the Department of Physics at Victoria University of Wellington; in 1961 he relocated to Ohio State University, Columbus; in 1986 he moved to Bainbridge Island near Seattle; he maintained a large polar library; died 2010) |
Associated language | eng |