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Languages:
English
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Edwin Lee Hamilton Papers
Identifier/Call Number: SMC 0044
Physical Description:
2 Linear feet
(2 record cartons)
Date (inclusive): 1933-1995
Abstract: Papers of marine geologist Edwin Lee Hamilton documenting his work with the NEL Sea Floor Studies Group and MidPac Expedition.
Includes photographs, field notebooks, and correspondence with Robert Dietz, Harry Hess, Gordon MacDonald, and H. William
Menard.
American marine geologist Edwin Lee Hamilton was born in Sherman, Texas on December 20, 1914 and educated at Texas A&M University
(B.S., Civil Engineering, 1936) and Stanford (M.S., Geology, 1951; Ph.D. 1952). After his distinguished wartime service in
the U.S. Marine Corps, Hamilton spent most of his career as a geologist in the Sea Floor Studies Section of the Navy Electronics
Laboratory (NEL, later Naval Undersea Research and Development Center) in San Diego, California. He also participated in the
joint NEL-SIO MidPac Expedition of 1950.
Edwin Lee Hamilton died in San Diego, California in 1998.
Scope and Content of Collection
Papers of marine geologist Edwin Lee Hamilton. The collection includes correspondence, subject files, memoranda, research
notebooks, notes, manuscripts of publications, photographs, slides and other material documenting his career.
Arranged in five series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) SUBJECT FILES, 3) NOTEBOOKS, 4) PUBLICATIONS, and 5) PHOTOGRAPHS AND SLIDES.
Selected photographs from this collection have been digitized and can be viewed through links in the container list.
Publication rights are held by the UC Regents.
Acquired 1999.
Edwin Lee Hamilton Papers, SMC 44. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Underwater acoustics
Submarine geology
Marine sediments
Marine geophysics -- 20th century
Hamilton, Edwin L. (Edwin Lee), 1914-1998 -- Archives
Dietz, Robert S. (Robert Sinclair), 1914-1995 -- Correspondence
MidPac Expedition (1950)
Macdonald, Gordon A. (Gordon Andrew), 1911-1978 -- Correspondence
Hess, Harry Hammond, 1906-1969 -- Correspondence
United States. Navy. Electronics Laboratory
Menard, Henry W. (Henry William), 1920-1986 -- Correspondence