Frank Press
Frank Press
Frank Pressis an American geophysicist. An advisor to four U.S. Presidents, he later served two consecutive terms as President of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of 160 scientific papers and co-author of the textbooks Earth and Understanding Earth...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth4 December 1924
CountryUnited States of America
across colleagues graduate modern notion rather students
The notion of graduate students as colleagues rather than students is a more modern notion, I think - across the country, in many different fields.
bring build modern needed people research
Postdocs are needed to build a modern research team; you want to bring in people with different backgrounds and different skills.
everybody lab marriage nice recognized
It was a marriage of convenience. Everybody recognized it as that, but we didn't think it was an extraordinary thing. The lab was a very nice place.
computers
When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.
country opportunity giving
You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research.
transition agendas smooth
I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.
growth personal-growth my-own
For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.
attitude different students
My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.
life government rewards
Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.
difficult-questions people relation
It's a difficult question of relations between people.
atmosphere confident kinds people places tense
In many places where you have these kinds of people - very strong, very confident people - the atmosphere is frenetic and tense and unpleasant.