Harald Sverdrup Manuscripts, 1937-1977 (bulk 1937-1943)

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Summary

Abstract:
The collection consists of typewritten manuscripts and related materials co-authored or written by Sverdrup, including The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry and General Biology.
Extent:
2.4 Linear feet (6 archives boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Harald Sverdrup Manuscripts, SMC 121. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of typewritten manuscripts and related material co-authored or written by oceanographer Harold Sverdrup: two manuscript versions of The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry and General Biology, including a scrapbook and loose draft material; the manuscript for Wind, Waves and Swell; and a data summary report entitled The Waters Off the Coast of Southern California. It includes one folder of correspondence and photographs pertaining to the posthumous translation of Hos Tundra-Folket, or Among the Tundra People.

Biographical / historical:

Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1888-1956) was a Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer. Sverdrup was the chief scientist on Roald Amundsen's 1918-1925 Arctic expedition aboard the Maud. In 1926, he became chair of meteorology at the University of Bergen, and in 1931 he was appointed research professor at the Christian Michelsen Institute. Sverdrup became director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) in 1936, where he improved the research program and developed the graduate curriculum with an emphasis on physical oceanography. Sverdrup coauthored The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry and General Biology (1942), a foundational text for modern oceanography. In 1945 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and joined the Executive Committee of the American Geophysical Union, presiding over the AGU Oceanography Section. In 1946 he became president of the International Association of Physical Oceanography. Sverdrup remained director of SIO for almost twelve years before returning to Norway to head the Norwegian Polar Institute, where he continued his scientific contributions.

Acquisition information:
Acquired; 1942, 1982, 1977, 1979
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.

Terms of access:

Publication rights belong to the creator of the collection.

Preferred citation:

Harald Sverdrup Manuscripts, SMC 121. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Location of this collection:
9500 Gilman Drive, Dept. 0175
La Jolla, CA 92093-0175, US
Contact:
(858) 534-2533
spcoll@ucsd.edu
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