| Biography
Richard Rayman Doell
Richard Raymond Doell, 1971 Vetlesen Prize Award Dinner |
(b.1923)
Richard Rayman Doell, a geologist who made critical contributions
to the theory of plate tectonics, was born June 28, 1923,
in Oakland, California, the son of Raymond A. and Mable F.
Doell.
He was a student at the University of California (Los Angeles)
from 1940 to 1943. After the war Doell returned to the University
of California (Berkeley) where he earned his A.B. degree in
geology in 1952, and his Ph.D. in 1955.
Dr. Doell was a lecturer in geophysics at the University
of Toronto in 1955-56, and an assistant professor at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology from 1956 to 1958. In 1958 he joined
the U.S. Geological Survey as a research geophysicist in Menlo
Park, California, and in 1967 became Chief of the USGS Branch
of Theoretical Geophysics.
Dr. Doell was elected to the National Academy of Sciences
in 1969.
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