Background
Kaufman, Sidney was born on August 10, 1908 in Passaic, New Jersey, United States. Son of Jacob and Frances Harriet (Buxbaum) Kaufman.
Kaufman, Sidney was born on August 10, 1908 in Passaic, New Jersey, United States. Son of Jacob and Frances Harriet (Buxbaum) Kaufman.
AB, Cornell University, 1930. Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Cornell University, 1934.
Charles A. Coffin Foundation fellow, General Electric, l935;
geophysicist, Shell Oil Corporation, Houston, l936-42;
assto vice president for exploration R & D, senior staff research physicist, Shell Oil Corporation, Houston, l962-74;
senior physicist, Shell Development Company, Houston, l946-58;
head instrumentation department, Shell Development Company, Houston, l958-62;
assistant in physics, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, l930-34;
acting professor department geological science, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, l974-. Past consultant unites states department Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, also industrial exploration groups. Executive director Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling.
Past chairman geophysics advisory panel United States Air Force Office Science Research. Past member seismology committee NAS. Past member of advisory county University of California Institute Geophysics and Planetary Physics.
Past member geoscience advisory panel Los Alamos Science Laboratory. Past member board directors Geothermal Resource Council. Past member Rangely advising committee United States Geological Survey.
Lieutenant Commander United States Navy, l942-46. Member Society Exploration Geophysicsts (honorary, past associate editor Geophysics, chairman committee on magnetic recording, chairman committee on governmental relations, now representative to the United States Geodynamics Committee, Virgil Kauffman gold medal l983), American Geophysical Union, Houston Geophysical Society (honorary), Sigma Xi.
Married Goldie Rosin, 1936. Children: Martha Ann Kaufman Selzman, Susan Joan.