Ernest Harry Vestine, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ernest Harry Vestine

American geophysicist

Date of Birth: 09-May-1906

Place of Birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Date of Death: 18-Jul-1968

Profession: meteorologist, geophysicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Ernest Harry Vestine

  • Ernest Harry Vestine (May 9, 1906 – July 18, 1968) was an American geophysicist and meteorologist. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Swedish parents.
  • At the age of two his family moved to Alberta, Canada, where he was raised.
  • He earned a B.S.
  • in math and physics in 1931 from the University of Alberta.
  • The following year he joined the Canadian Meteorological Office in Toronto.
  • During the Second International Polar Year, 1932-3, he led a Canadian expedition to Meanook, which lies in the northern part of Alberta.
  • The team established a magnetic observatory at the site.
  • In 1934 he left to study at the University of London, where in 1937 he earned a Ph.D.
  • in applied mathematics. During the early 1930s he began a collaboration with the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and in January, 1938 he was hired as an assistant by the Institute's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism.
  • He was soon promoted to chief of the department's Land Magnetic Survey section.
  • In 1946 he became the head of the Section on Theoretical Geophysics.
  • In 1947, E.
  • H.
  • Vestine et al.
  • produced a comprehensive, two-volume work detailing all the geomagnetic data of the Department.
  • In addition to his research into geomagnetics, he collaborated with studies into seismology and cosmic rays. In 1957 he performed work relating to the International Geophysical Year.
  • The same year he left the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism to join the RAND Corporation.
  • There he performed studies on planetary and space science, as well as issues concerning national security.
  • From 1964 until 1968 he served as president of the American Geophysical Union's Geomagnetism section. He died in Santa Monica, California. His son, Henry Vestine, became a famous guitarist, playing with Frank Zappa's The Mothers of Invention and Canned Heat. The crater Vestine on the Moon is named after him.

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