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Hsü, Kenneth Jinghwa was born on June 28, 1929 in Nanking, China. Arrived in Switzerland, 1967. Son of Sinwu and Sulan (Huang) Hsü.
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The famous geological research ship Glomar Challenger was a radically new instrument that revolutionized earth science in the same sense that the cyclotron revolutionized nuclear physics, and its deep-sea drilling voyages, conducted from 1968 through 1983, were some of the great scientific adventures of our time. Beginning with the vessel's first cruises, which lent support to the idea of continental drift, the Challenger played a key part in the widely publicized plate-tectonics revolution and its challenge to more conventional theories. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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The famous geological research ship Glomar Challenger was a radically new instrument that revolutionized earth science in the same sense that the cyclotron revolutionized nuclear physics, and its deep-sea drilling voyages, conducted from 1968 through 1983, were some of the great scientific adventures of our time. Beginning with the vessel's first cruises, which lent support to the idea of continental drift, the Challenger played a key part in the widely publicized plate-tectonics revolution and its challenge to more conventional theories. Here the leading oceanographer and earth scientist Kenneth Hs offers an intensely personal account of the experiences of the ship's diverse crews--the sailors, drillers, marine technicians, and scientists who braved not only the ocean's resistance to surrendering its secrets but also the difficulties of balky machinery, physical illness, close quarters, and all-too-human temperaments. But the intellectual rewards of the journeys also abounded, and Hs is the ideal writer to convey the excitement with which he and other crew scientists pursued them. The quintessential insider, he offers biographical sketches, humorous anecdotes, background information from the history of geology, and excerpts from the ship's daily operational report--all skillfully combined with a narrative history of the ship's explorations in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans and the polar seas.
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The famous geological research ship Glomar Challenger was a radically new instrument that revolutionized earth science in the same sense that the cyclotron revolutionized nuclear physics, and its deep-sea drilling voyages, conducted from 1968 through 1983, were some of the great scientific adventures of our time. Beginning with the vessel's first cruises, which lent support to the idea of continental drift, the Challenger played a key part in the widely publicized plate-tectonics revolution and its challenge to more conventional theories. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Hsü, Kenneth Jinghwa was born on June 28, 1929 in Nanking, China. Arrived in Switzerland, 1967. Son of Sinwu and Sulan (Huang) Hsü.
Bachelor of Science, Nanking University, 1948. Master of Arts, Ohio State University, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1953.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Nanking University, 1987.
Research geologist, section head Shell Oil Corporation, Houston, 1954-1963. Associate professor State University of New York, Binghamton, 1963-1964, University California, Riverside, 1964-1967. Professor geology Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, 1967—1994.
President Tarim Resources Recycling Ltd., since 2005. Consultant Chinese Ministry Geology, 1979-1980, Chinese Ministry Chemical Industry, 1987, others. Member expert panel on sea bed waste disposal International Maritime Organization, 1986.
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(Great Dying, The: Cosmic Catastrophe, Dinosaurs, and the ...)
Fellow Geological Society of America (Penrose medal 2001). Member United States National Academy of Sciences (foreign associate), International Association Sedimentology (president 1978-1982), American Society Sedimentology (honorary), International Commission Marine Geology (chairman 1980-1989).
Married 1st Ruth Grunder in 1958 (deceased), two son one daughter. Married 2nd Christine Eugster in 1966, one son.