| Description | Oral history interview: John Dewey interviewed by Nina Morgan about his life and geological career, carried out as part of a History of Geology Group (HOGG) project originating around the time of the bicentenary of the Society.
Recording location: University of Oxford
Duration: 00:54:09
Family background, schooling, becoming interested in geology, studying Geology at Queen Mary College (now Queen Mary University of London) (1955-1958), and mapping in the west of Ireland for a PhD at Imperial College London (1958-1960) (02:05-11:34); working as an Assistant Lecturer in palaeontology at University of Manchester (1960-1964), meeting the Beatles at a party in Liverpool, working as a Lecturer in structual geology at the University of Cambridge (1964-1970), six month sabbatical at the Lamont Geological Observatory (now Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory), Columbia University (1967), and being part of the development of plate tectonics (11:35-24:52); working as Professor of Geology at the State University of New York at Albany (1971-1982), then Professor of Geology at Durham University (1982-1986), Professor of Geology at the University of Oxford (1986-2001), Professor of Geology at the University of California at Davis (c2001-c2008), and the joy of retirement (24:53-35:42); changes in the field of geology and its teaching over the interviewee's lifetime, particularly plate tectonics, and future research possibilities (35:43-54:09).
[Recording stops mid-sentence.] |