Career
Doll was a leading figure in the development of oil well logging and a key technical leader of the Schlumberger oilfield services company. His contributions include the induction logging technique, and during World World War II he led the development of the jeep-borne mine detector. He received a Certificate of Appreciation from the United States government and was made an officer of the Légion d"honneur.
Upon his retirement in 1967, the Schlumberger Well Surveying Corporation"s research laboratory in Ridgefield, Connecticut was renamed the Schlumberger-Doll Research Center in his honor.
The Schlumberger-Doll Research Center was relocated to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2006. Doll came to the United States in 1941 and became an American citizen in 1962.
