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Bull, Colin

LC control no.n 91018200
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Personal name headingBull, Colin
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Variant(s)Bull, C. (Colin)
See alsoFounded corporate body: Colin Bull Polar Books
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Associated countryGreat Britain England New Zealand United States
Associated placeWellington (N.Z.) Columbus (Ohio)
Polar regions
Birth date1928-06-13
Death date2010-09-07
Place of birthBirmingham (England)
Place of deathBainbridge Island (Wash.)
Field of activityGeophysics
AffiliationUniversity of Birmingham Victoria University of Wellington Ohio State University
Profession or occupationGeophysicists
Found inGiovinetto, 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 languageeng