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Sverdrup (Harald) Manuscripts
SMC 0121
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English
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Harald Sverdrup Manuscripts
Identifier/Call Number: SMC 0121
Physical Description:
2.4 Linear feet
(6 archives boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1937-1977 (bulk 1937-1943)
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.
Publication rights belong to the creator of the collection.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.
Scope and Content of Collection
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.
Harald Sverdrup Manuscripts, SMC 121. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
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.
Acquired; 1942, 1982, 1977, 1979
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Marine meteorology -- Manuscripts
Chemical oceanography -- Manuscripts
Oceanography -- Manuscripts
Sverdrup, H. U. (Harald Ulrik), 1888-1857 -- Archives