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David Tressel Griggs
David Tressel Griggs
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David Griggs was born October 6, 1911, in Columbus, Ohio, the son of Robert Fiske Griggs and Laura Amelia Tressel Griggs. The ancestors of both parents clerivect from English immigrants who came to America prior to the American Revolution.
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The Society of Fellows at Harvard University began operating in 1933, just one year before Dave's appointment. "The concept of the Society was largely the creation of two men: Lawrence Joseph Henderson, then professor of biological chemistry, and Abbott Lawrence Lowell of the old Boston family, president of Harvarcl.
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coinventor of the hydrogen bomb; Robert Wooc~warcI, chemist en c! Nobel prize winner (synthesis of quinine)
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The road stretches straight ahead, a long ribbon of concrete, the artery of the North Hungarian plain. We are heading eastward to Bucharest, Odessa, Tiflis, and the mysteries of the Caucasus.
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by Nobel laureate Percy Bric3gman anct began his systematic experimental studies of the mechanical properties of rocks and the effects of environmental factors, such as increased pressure and the presence of fluids, on the mechanics of deformation of mineral crystals and rocks. He designed and built new apparatus for long "creep" experiments at room temperature and pressure and in the presence of fluicls.
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This very fruitful period of research was terminated in 1941 when Dave left Harvard to apply his effort fully to national defense. Dave Griggs's contributions to national defense in World War IT were manifold: first at the MIT Radiation Laboratory and then as expert consultant to the Secretary of War.
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Dave spent most of his time with the operational commands, at first with the Strategic Air Forces in Europe. While working directly with the commanders, such as General Pete Quesada, Jimmie DoolittIe, and Tooey Spatz, he flew both training and combat missions introducing airborne bombing racier systems.
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radars: the MEW and SCR-584. While he was in the European theater, Dave established the role of critical communications link and personal emissary between the theater commanders, such as Doolittle, Vandenberg, Twining, Spatz, and the leaclers back at home such as General Arnold, Secretary Stimson, Dr.
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Through his tireless efforts and outstanding leadership he made a substantial contribution to the heavy bombardment operations performed by the Eighth Air Force. The professional skill and the devotion to duty displayed by Dr.
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AEC laboratory, the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, California. Oppie's opposition to the development of a hydrogen bomb, combined with his long record of association with liberals and communists, led Secretary FinTetter by early 1951 to deny Air Force cIassifiec3 information to Oppie.4 While Oppie's outward opposition to the hydrogen bomb clecreasec3 during Dave's tenure as chief scientist of the Air Force, Oppie became involves!
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STichter, ctirector of the Institute of Geophysics at the University of CaTifornia, Ins Angeles, to accept an appointment as professor of geophysics at the institute, a position he held, except for relatively short leaves of absence, until his cleath. At UCLA Dave Griggs established a new laboratory for experimental deformation of rocks that was productive in terms of both scientific papers and well-trainect scientists.
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students at UCLA he undertook an exhaustive and valuable study of the mechanical properties of calcite crystals, limestone, marble, ant! other carbonate rocks.
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of the "simple squeezer" provicled an extremely versatile exploration toot for both phase equilibrium anti deformation studies over an extenclect range of experimental conditions and portended the clevelopment of a variety of modern anvil crevices. In an effort to attain pressures and temperatures high enough to induce plasticity in the strongest silicates, Griggs clesignecI (about 1960)
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tie was Impatient with Incompetence and more so with carelessness or negligence, and his students quickly became aware of these traits. He had an uncanny insight and a critical ability that enabled him to detect flaws in a scientific argument or theory with ease; students and colleagues alike have seen their theories devastated under his critical examination.
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He was with his friends Robert McNamara, former secretary of defense, and Richard Hocigson, a colleague from the MIT Racliation Laboratory. Dave was aware of a precedent heart attack, but with typical ctisregarct for his own safety, he was not cleterrec3 from vigorous skiing.
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; also David C Elliot, Project Vista: An Early Study of Nuclear Weapons in Europe (Santa Monica, Calif.: The California Seminar on International Security and Foreign Policy, 1987~.
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44:54177. 1938 Deformation of single calcite crystals under high confining pressures.
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Experimental deformation of calcite crystals.
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Annealing recrystallization in calcite crystals and aggregates. In Symposium on Rock Deformation, eds.
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Transmission electron microscope study of Brazil twins and dislocations experimentally produced in natural quartz.
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Petrologic study of igneous and metaigneous rocks from Apollo 15 and 16 using high voltage electron microscopy. In Proceedings of the Fourth Lunar Science Conference.
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