Richard Doell (geophysicist)
Richard Rayman Doell (born June 28, 1923 in Oakland , California , † March 6, 2008 in Point Richmond , California) was an American geophysicist who created the time scale of the reversals of the Earth's magnetic field with Allan V. Cox and Brent Dalrymple , which used in early plate tectonics evidence in the mid-1960s by Frederick Vine and Drummond Hoyle Matthews .
Doell grew up in Carpinteria, California and studied geology from 1940 to 1943 at the University of California, Los Angeles and, after military service in the infantry during World War II, at the University of California, Berkeley , with a bachelor's degree in geology in 1952 and a doctorate in geophysics 1955. After teaching at the University of Toronto ( Lecturer in Geophysics 1955/56) and 1956 to 1958 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Assistant Professor), he went to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in Menlo Park in 1959 . There he began his collaboration with Allan Cox and later Brent Dalrymple on paleomagnetism in rocks and the determination of the times of reversals of the earth's magnetic field. From 1967 to 1971 he was head of the theoretical geophysics department at the USGS. In 1978 he retired from USGS. In retirement he devoted himself to sailing trips to Alaska, Polynesia and Northern Europe and married in 1984.
In 1970 he received the Vetlesen Prize . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1969) and President of the Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Section of the American Geophysical Union from 1968 to 1970.
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- with Cox, Dalrymple Reversals of the earth's magnetic field , Scientific American, Volume 216, 1967
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Doell, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Doell, Richard Rayman (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oakland , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 2008 |
| Place of death | Point Richmond , California |