Frank Press

Frank Press is 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 (1981–1993). He is the author of 160 scientific papers and co-author of the textbooks Earth and Understanding Earth.

Date of birth:
4th December, 1924
"You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory – what’s going on, what the opportunities are there – you talk about your own research."
― Frank Press
Topic(s): Travel
"When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment."
― Frank Press
Topic(s): Computers
"My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them."
― Frank Press
Topic(s): Attitude

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