Sidney Kaufman Papers, circa 1930-2007.
Collection Number: 16-14-4201
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Sidney Kaufman Papers, circa 1930-2007.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
16-14-4201
Abstract:
Papers include material on earthquakes and seismology, elastic waves, nuclear and
underwater explosions, his work during employment with Shell Oil Company and material
while a professor at Cornell, including course notes and COCORP items. Also, his work
with the Navy Navigation Satellite System, radiolocation, and Shell's analog computer.
In addition, photographs/negatives and ephemera from his student years at Cornell
and a set of Gemini photographs from NASA.
Creator:
Kaufman, Sidney, 1908-2008.
Quanitities:
2.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Sidney Kaufman obtained his BS degree from Cornell in 1930 and his Ph.D. degree in
Physics from Cornell in 1934. He worked for Shell Oil Company, during which he is
credited with the world's first offshore seismic survey for oil, carried out in the
1940's. Sid left his senior position at Shell to join Cornell as Acting Professor
in 1973 (Dept. of Geological Sciences, now titled Earth and Atmospheric Sciences).
Along with Emeritus Professor Jack Oliver, Sid initiated the Consortium for Continental
Reflection Profiling (COCORP) project at Cornell, which pioneered in the use of oil
exploration techniques to study the deep structure of the continents. In 1983 Sid
received the Virgil Kauffman Gold Medal Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists
for outstanding contribution to the advancement of the science of geophysical exploration.
Papers include material on earthquakes and seismology, elastic waves, nuclear and
underwater explosions, his work during employment with Shell Oil Company and material
while a professor at Cornell, including course notes and COCORP items. Also, his work
with the Navy Navigation Satellite System, radiolocation, and Shell's analog computer.
In addition, photographs/negatives and ephemera from his student years at Cornell
and a set of Gemini photographs from NASA.
Also, a VHS tape titled "Recollections by Sidney Kaufman". In 2003, a group of people
met with Sidney Kaufman for an interview. He discussed many aspects of his life, including
being a student and teaching at Cornell, his wife and jobs, WWII, and radar.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Sidney Kaufman Papers, #16-14-4201. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Shell Oil Company
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Subjects:
Nuclear explosions.
Analog computers.
Petroleum -- Prospecting
Satellites.
Earthquakes.
Seismology.
Geophysical field investigations
Geophysics.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Course notes for GS487
|
1989 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Course material for GS488
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Papers/articles about Sidney Kaufman
|
1983-2003 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Kaufman reprints
|
1932-1934 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence to Kaufman
|
1965-2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
-especially regarding appointments to various committees and positions
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Keichi Kasahara material
|
1952-1986 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
NAS annual meeting, abstracts of papers
|
1933 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
NRL work
|
1946 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
|
1973-1990 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
SEG 50th anniversary
|
1980 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
SEG awards program
|
1982-1983 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Shell contract material
|
1973-1976 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Shell's analog computer
|
1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Analog computer photos
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Shell 50th anniversary
|
1986 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Koninklijke/Shell Exploratie en Produktie Laboratorium
|
1974-1978 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Meeting of Charles Coffin and Gerard Swope Fellows, General Electric
|
1953 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
University of California - Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
|
1973-1975 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Cornell Program for the Study of the Continents
|
1982-1990 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP)
|
1982-1983 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
COCORP charts, graphs and maps
|
1970's - 1980's |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Field photos (COCORP?)
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Oil seep photos
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Oil-Industry History, volume 5, 6 and 8
|
2004-2007 |
| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Weizmann Institute of Science trip, Rehovoth, Israel
|
1962-1964 |
| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
China trip
|
1982-1983 |
|
Scope and Contents
-contains additional COCORP material
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| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Preliminary reports
|
1940-1941 |
|
Scope and Contents
-Lake Verret -Valentine -Six Mile Lake -Duson, Cankton, Egan -St. Francisville
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| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Various Notes
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Navy Navigation Satellite system
|
1968-1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Navy Navigation Satellite system
|
1968-1971 |
| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Radiolocation systems
|
1948-1950 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Geophysics material
|
1970's-1980's |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Elastic waves, effects on fish life
|
1957-1960 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Nuclear weapons and explosions
|
1960, 1962 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Earthquakes and seismology
|
1963-1969 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Earthquakes and seismology
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1971-1977 |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Lawrence Livermore Lab - consultation documents
|
1975 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
An analysis of the potential use of geothermal energy for power generation along the
Texas Gulf coast
|
1974 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
External review of the graduate program in geophysics at St. Louis University, by Kaufman
|
1978 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
The propagation of energy according to the classical theory, by Kaufman
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
The Cornell Physics Department, Recollections and a History of Sorts, by Paul Hartman
|
1984 |
|
Scope and Contents
-Kaufman mentioned on page 69
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Information Theory text by W. W. Ogden
|
1974 |
| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Cornell Engineering
|
1993 |
| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Cornell alumni news and mailing list
|
1980, 1991 |
| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Cornell alumni material
|
1997-2000) |
| Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Cornell Widow
|
1927 |
| Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Photos and ephemera - Cornell
|
1930's |
| Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Sidney Kaufman portraits
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Various group photos
|
1950's-1960's |
| Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Family, friends, reunion photos
|
1960's-2000's |
| Box 2 | Folder 20 |
NASA - Gemini photos
|
1967 |
|
Scope and Contents
-includes photos of various geological locations on Earth
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| Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Unidentified photos
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Miscellaneous
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | V-7600 |
Recollections by Sidney Kaufman, VHS tape
|
2003 |
| Box 2 |
Various note books
|
n.d. | |
| Box 2 |
Reprints collected by Kaufman while at Cornell
|
n.d. | |
| Box 3 |
Various plaques and certificates
|
1938-1964 | |
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Petroleum Prospecting conference in China - group photo of attendees
|
1981 | ||
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"One In Sixteen" Shell Oil poster featuring Kaufman
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n.d. | ||