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Shrock, Robert Rakes was born on August 27, 1904 in Waupecong, Indiana, United States. Son of Andrew and Stella (Glassburn) Shrock.
(A revision of Grabau and Shimer's "North American Index F...)
A revision of Grabau and Shimer's "North American Index Fossils," published in 1915. Approximately 7,500 species are described and figured. Contains over 9,400 illustrations on 303 full page plates. Selected bibliographies for all of the larger divisions are given. Considers geographic as well as geologic distribution.
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(A revision of Grabau and Shimer's "North American Index F...)
A revision of Grabau and Shimer's "North American Index Fossils," published in 1915. Approximately 7,500 species are described and figured. Contains over 9,400 illustrations on 303 full page plates. Selected bibliographies for all of the larger divisions are given. Considers geographic as well as geologic distribution.
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( After an opening salute to the teaching assistants, res...)
After an opening salute to the teaching assistants, research associates, librarians, secretaries, and shop personnel who were mainstays of the geology department over the years, Professor Shrock proceeds to the heart of his mammoth undertaking: he presents biographies of all 53 professors who served the department for its first century, along with their portraits and bibliographies of their publications. Chronologically, they range from William Rogers, the geologist who founded MIT, to Gene Simmons (who as an authority on the minerals of the moon, reflects the giant steps that science has taken in recent years) and Frank Press, in recognition of the department's second century. In between are the biographies of such notable earths scientists as Alpheus Hyatt, Thomas Sterry Hunt, Thomas Jaggar, Hervey Shimer, Reginald Daly, Waldemar Lindgren, Martin Julian Brueger, and Patrick Hurley.Of course, Professor Shrock's own autobiographical sketch appears in this series. His permanent place in the history of his science derives from his work in paleontology and sedimentology. In 1944, The MIT Pres published his Index Fossils of North America, written with his faculty colleague Hervey Shimer, and it has been in steady demand ever since, with its tenth reprinting in 1977.Professor Shrock was also Head of the Department of Geology and Geophysics from 1950 to 1965. The department has since been renamed the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences to reflect man's new capacity to explore extraterrestrial geologies and possible biologies, but the core of its activities remains solidly down to earth. That one of Shrock's successors was named by President Carter to be his science advisor is in part recognition of the increasing importance of the earth sciences and their attendant environmental concerns in all o our lives. The scientists whose careers are outlined in this massive and lovingly prepared work devoted their lives to increasing man's understanding of the earth and its resources, and they are worthy of the tribute their colleague has paid them, whether they have long before entered the earth or still probe its surface, discovering ever more about its nature, character, and riches.
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( Cecil and Ida Green made a fortune almost by chance. I...)
Cecil and Ida Green made a fortune almost by chance. In 1941 they bought a quarter share of a faltering oil exploration company; government contracts during the war led to the creation of a small instrumentation division that became Texas Instruments. In 1954 scientists at Texas Instruments created the first silicon transistor, and the rest is history. What is remarkable about the Greens, however, was their joint decision to share the fruits of their success as widely as possible. Their donations of more than $150 million have left an indelible mark on American scientific and medical education. This warm, anecdotal biography by the Greens' longtime friend, MIT geologist Robert Shrock reveals the human impulses that led to their success, the unique combination of the analytical and the personal that they brought to their business decisions and to their investments in humanity's future. Shrock describes the early years of the Greens' life together in and around Texas, exploring for subsurface structures possibly containing oil and gas: fifteen years of hard field work followed by ten years as geophysical entrepreneurs. He follows the transformation of their first acquisition, a risky geophysical venture, into the wildly successful Texas Instruments. Their fortune made, Shrock details the decades in which the Greens imaginatively shared their wealth - funding academic buildings, hospitals, health care centers, libraries and other civic buildings; endowing professorships, fellowships, and scholarships in ten different schools and research institutions; assisting in founding two new colleges - at the University of Texas at Dallas and at Oxford - and an innovative educational audio-visual TV network in Dallas. In choosing their grantees, Shrock notes, they applied exactly those analytical skills that had paid off in business decisions: the Greens could be as hard-nosed in dealing with the cost-benefit aspects of redistributing wealth as in amassing it. At the same time their approach was always intensely personal and direct.
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Shrock, Robert Rakes was born on August 27, 1904 in Waupecong, Indiana, United States. Son of Andrew and Stella (Glassburn) Shrock.
AB, Indiana University, 1925. A.M., Indiana University, 1926. Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana University, 1928.
Honorary Doctor of Science, Indiana University, 1971.
Assistant in geology, University of Wisconsin, 1928-1929;
instructor, University of Wisconsin, 1929-1931;
assistant professor, University of Wisconsin, 1931-1937;
assistant professor geology, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1937-1943;
associate professor, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1943-1949;
Executive officer department geology, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1946-1949;
acting chairman, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1949-1950;
chairman, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1950-1965;
professor of geology, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1949-1970;
emeritus professor geology, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1970-1993. Visiting lecturer geology Harvard, 1948-1949, associate in invertebrate paleontology, 1950-1970. Consultant various mining and petroleum companies and engineering groups, 1925-1993.
Senior industrial specialist War Production Board, 1943. Consultant Research and Development Board, 1946-1952.
( After an opening salute to the teaching assistants, res...)
(A revision of Grabau and Shimer's "North American Index F...)
(A revision of Grabau and Shimer's "North American Index F...)
( Cecil and Ida Green made a fortune almost by chance. I...)
(Principles Of Invertebrate Paleontology)
(light wear on this older geology book)
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Member corporation, honorary trustee, honorary member Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Fellow Geological Society of America, Paleontological Society (patron 1977), American Association for the Advancement of Science (chairman science 1957, vice president). Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, Society Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists (president 1956-1957, Twenhofel medal 1976), American Association Petroleum Geologists, National Association Geology Teachers (president 1959), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Sigma Gamma Epsilon.
Son of; married Theodora Antoinette Weidman, February 2, 1933. Children: Wendolyn Theodora, Robert Ellsworth.