Frank Press
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 3 years ago |
Date of birth | December 4,1924 |
Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
Born | New York |
United States | |
Presidents | Jimmy Carter |
Field | Geophysics |
Awards | Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society |
National Medal of Science for Physical Science | |
Japan Prize | |
Lomonosov Gold Medal | |
Vannevar Bush Award | |
Arthur L. Day Medal | |
Legion of Honour | |
William Bowie Medal | |
Died | Chapel Hill |
North Carolina | |
United States | |
Notable student | Don L. Anderson |
Charles Archambeau | |
Ari Ben-Menahem | |
Education | Columbia University |
The City College of New York | |
Academic advisor | Maurice Ewing |
Books | Earth |
Planet earth | |
Date of died | January 29,2020 |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 406669 |
Frank Press Life story
Frank Press was an American geophysicist. He was an advisor to four U.S. presidents, and later served two consecutive terms as president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He was the author of 160 scientific papers and co-author of the textbooks Earth and Understanding Earth.