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Oral History Interview with Morton J. Rubin
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Topics include: family and childhood; undergraduate education in the 1930s; entry into meteorology as an observer for the U.S. Weather Bureau in Philadelphia; the meteorology program at Penn State in the early 1940s; his wartime position as meteorologist for Pan American Grace Airways in Peru and Chile; subsequent work at MIT on the Southern Hemisphere Analysis Project; his year spent in Southern Hemisphere research in South Africa; posting to South America to assemble upper air data for the IGY; first assignment on a major multi-national project (International Weather Central) for the IGY in Antarctica; his involvement with the Special Committee on Antarctic Research; comments on his Soviet scientific colleagues in Antarctica and his own research there; assignment in Washington, DC, as head of the Polar Research Group in the Weather Bureau; as chair of the Working Group on Meteorology for SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research); as research administrator at NOAA; as convener of polar meteorology commission of IAMAP; work at WMO in support of the Joint Organizing Committee for GARP, FGGE, POLEX and an Alpine experiment; visiting scholar at South Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, University; paper on the weather conditions for the Cook and Bellingshausen Expeditions; professional association with the AGU. Oral history interview with Morton J. Rubin, 1991. Interviewed by Gordon Cartwright. 2 sound cassettes (ca. 2 hrs., tape 2 side B blank) : analog, mono + transcript (28 pgs.). AMS 79-80; two physical versions (one master, one copy). Forms part of American Meteorological Society Oral History Project.