A Sixth Sense - Hardcover

Oristaglio, Michael; Dorozynski, Alexander

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590201744 ISBN 13: 9781590201749

Verlag: Overlook Books, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

The first biography of the giant of engineering and geophysics.

On March 18, 1940, French army lieutenant Henri-Georges Doll came to the U.S. embassy in Paris to give a deposition before American Vice-Consul John Wood. Europe was at war. A graduate of two of France's grandes ?coles of science, engineering, and civil service, Doll had been summoned back from the French-German border to work on a new system for detecting land mines, which the Germans were deploying on a vast scale.

Doll's deposition, however, had nothing to do with war. He had come to the embassy to testify in a court case pending in Houston, Texas-a patent lawsuit, Schlumberger Well Surveying Corportion v. Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company. It marked one of the first great industrial battles for control of the technology of oil and gas exploration.

One of the most prolific inventors of the twentieth century, Doll was a pioneer in the technology of "seeing underground" using electrical current, radio waves, and sound, which enabled the explosive growth of world oil production. He also directed his inventive genius toward military and medical research; but, as demonstrated in this important biography, his work had the deepest impact on commerce and engineering, which is still felt today.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Oristaglio, a geophysicist, has worked as a research scientist and manager with Schlumberger in the oil industry for the past twenty-five years. He lives in Newtown, Connecticut.

Alexander Dorozynski is a science journalist and author. He has written biographies on Nobel Prize-winning Soviet physicist Lev Landau and on Bolshevik leader Vladimir Illyich Ulyanov (Lenin). He lives in Madeira, Portugal, and is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Aus dem Klappentext

HENRI-GEORGES DOLL was a true pioneer of modern applied science - one of the great but little known French and American inventors of the 20th century. A SIXTH SENSE is the story of a man at the core of scientific innovation, a brilliant mind who blazed a trail for much of what we know today about remote sensing and oil exploration.

"When I got out of the Navy at the end of World War II, I decided that when somebody walked into my office I would never again stand up because he had a higher rank than me. Mr. Doll was the kind of man for whom, when he walked into your office, you just naturally stood up." --American physicist Jay Tittman

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Overlook Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1590201744
• ISBN 13: 9781590201749
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
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