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Thompson, George A. (George Albert), 1919-2017

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Personal name headingThompson, George A. (George Albert), 1919-2017
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Variant(s)Thompson, G. A. (George Albert), 1919-2017
Thompson, George (George Albert), 1919-2017
Thompson, George A. (George Albert), 1919-
Birth date1919
Death date2017-05-12
Place of birthSwissvale (Pa.)
Place of deathPalo Alto (Calif.)
Field of activityGeology Geophysics
AffiliationStanford University
Found inRocks, structure, and geologic history of Steamboat Springs ... 1964: t.p. (G.A. Thompson)
OCLC, Aug. 26: t.p. (Thompson, George A. (George Albert), 1919-; Thompson, George Albert, 1919-; usage: George A. Thompson; G.A. Thompson)
Stanford news service, May 24, 2017 (George Thompson; born 1919 in Swissvale, Pennsylvania; died May 12, 2017, in Palo Alto, California; geologist and geophysicist; BS in geology from the Pennsylvania State University, 1941; MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1942; PhD from Stanford University, 1949; his career at Stanford University began in 1946 as a graduate student; joined the faculty in 1949; dean of School of Earth Sciences 1987-1989; retired in 1989)