| 词条 | Athelstan Spilhaus |
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| name = Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus | image = Spilhaus_NASA.jpg | image_size = 175px | caption = Spilhaus is standing to the right during the announcement of plans for the building and launching of the world's first man-made satellite, July 29, 1955. (NASA) | birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|11|25|mf=y}} | birth_place = Cape Town, South Africa | death_date = {{death date and age|1998|3|30|1911|11|25|mf=y}} | death_place = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | ethnicity = | field = Geophysics Physical Oceanography | work_institution = Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution University of Minnesota American Newspaper Publishers Association | alma_mater = | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = Bathythermograph | author_abbreviation_bot = | author_abbreviation_zoo = | prizes = | religion = | footnotes = }}Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus (November 25, 1911 – March 30, 1998) was a South African-American geophysicist and oceanographer. Among other accomplishments, Spilhaus is credited with proposing the establishment of Sea Grant Colleges at a meeting of the American Fisheries Society in 1963 as a parallel to the successful land-grant colleges, which he claimed was "one of the best investments this nation ever made. The same kind of imagination and foresight should be applied to the exploration of the sea."[1] BiographySpilhaus was born in 1911 in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1936, Spilhaus joined the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, where he developed the bathythermograph, which made the measurement of ocean depths and temperatures from a moving vessel possible, a device which proved indispensable to submarine warfare. This invention established his international reputation.[2] He became a US citizen in 1946. Later, he became Dean of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology. Spilhaus was the founder and original planner of the Minnesota Experimental City[3]. Spilhaus was also chair of the scientific advisory committee of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. He became known by the public for his Our New Age Sunday feature, which appeared in the color comics section of 93 newspapers (1957–1973).[4][5][6] The strip therefore was quite influential in its time and John F. Kennedy is cited to have said on a meeting with Spilhaus in 1962: "The only science I ever learned was from your comic strip in the Boston Globe."[7] He apparently enjoyed authoring the feature; in response to a question about its broad scope in a mid-sixties TV interview, Spilhaus modestly replied he'd learned quite a lot by writing it. He also served on the board of trustees of Science Service, now known as Society for Science & the Public, from 1965 to 1978. In an interview for the American Institute of Physics he stated with reference to a question on his religious views that he was an Episcopalian[8] References1. ^{{cite journal|last1=Spilhaus|first1=A. F.|title=Man in the Sea|journal=Science|volume=145|issue=3636|year=1964|pages=993–993|issn=0036-8075|doi=10.1126/science.145.3636.993}} 2. ^{{Cite web | title = A Guide to the Athelstan Spilhaus Papers, 1912-2003 (bulk 1930-1990) | author = | work = Dolph Briscoe Center for American History|publisher=The University of Texas |location= Austin | date = | accessdate = 2018-06-05 | url = https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00500/cah-00500.html | quote = }} 3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://scienceandfilm.org/articles/3015/the-experimental-city-director-chad-freidrichs|title=The Experimental City: Director Chad Freidrichs|last=Epstein|first=Sonia|date=December 15, 2017|website=Sloan Science & Film|access-date=}} 4. ^{{cite web|title= Athelstan Spilhaus (obituary)|work= Fishlines|volume= XVIII|issue= 4|date= April 1998|url= http://seagrant.uaf.edu/news/fishlines/Apr98.html|deadurl= yes|access-date= 2007-01-16|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100625173150/http://seagrant.uaf.edu/news/fishlines/Apr98.html|archive-date= 2010-06-25|df= }} 5. ^{{cite web|title=Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus, Scientist, Inventor, Educator and Syndicated Science Writer|work= The Sands Mechanical Museum |url=http://www.sandsmuseum.com/misc/spillhaus/about/autospil.html}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Metric system cartoons|publisher= U.S. Metric Association|url=http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/cartoon.htm |accessdate=2007-01-16 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070117101102/http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/cartoon.htm |archivedate=2007-01-17 }} 7. ^{{Cite web | title = Sunday Funnies Blast Off Into the Space Age | last = Novak | first = Matt | work = Smithsonian | date = January 27, 2012 | accessdate = 2018-06-05 | url = https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sunday-funnies-blast-off-into-the-space-age-81559551/ | quote = }} 8. ^{{Cite web | title = Interview of Athelstan Spilhaus by Ronald Doel on 1989 November 10, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA, | last = Doel | first = Ronald | work = aip.org | date = 10 November 1989 | accessdate = 2018-06-05 | url = https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/5059 | language = | quote = }} }} Further reading{{refbegin}}
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