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From page 315... ... canal manager, but he contributed many ideas and observations to the then-infant science of meteorology, and particularly to the unclerstanding of hurricanes, which he showed were giant whirlwinds. Alfred's grandfather was a botanist in the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and his father, Robert Redfield, was a naturalist photographer, whose works are in the Library Company in Philadelphia and at Yale. Read the entire page →
From page 316... ... Redfield remained on the Harvard faculty for the rest of his life, as professor of physiology from 1931, director of the Biological Laboratories in 1934, and chairman of the newly consolidated Division of Biology, which united botany, zoology, and physiology, from 1935 to 193S, and finally as professor emeritus after 1956. Redfield married Elizabeth Pratt in 1913, shortly after receiving his bachelor's degree, but she was a casualty of the 1918 flu epidemic. Read the entire page →
From page 317... ... Others were the meteorologist Carl Gustav Rossby and his students, Ray Montgomery and Athelstan Spilhaus; the bacteriologist Selman Waxman and his assistant, Charles Renn; Bigelow's students, Columbus Iselin, Mary Sears, and George Clark; the chemists Norris Rakestraw from Brown University and Richard Seiwel1 from the Carnegie Institution; Reclfield's student Bostwick Ketchum; and the geologist Henry Stetson from Harvard. There were also Albert Parr, director of the gingham Oceanographic Foundation at Yale, who used the Woods Hole ship Atlantis but was never actually a staff member, and Floyd Soule, physical oceanographer of the International Ice Patrol, which made its headquarters at Woocis Hole after the oceanographic institution was founded. Read the entire page →
From page 318... ... A seagoing technician, Alfred Woodcock, observed and explained many of the essential but previously unobserved features of the oceanatmosphere circulation in the boundary layer between the two fluids. In the early 1930s Redfield made the discovery for which he is best known. Read the entire page →
From page 319... ... The reasons why the proportions of biologically active elements in seawater and in marine plants are virtually identical are by no means clear. Redfield thought that bacterial nitrogen fixation might increase the ratio of nitrate to nhos1 ~ .' . Read the entire page →
From page 320... ... in 194142, the Oceanographic underwent a sea change. Alfred Redfield was appointed associate director, and he and Martha moved permanently from Cambridge to Woocis Hole. Read the entire page →
From page 321... ... Athelstan SpiThaus's invention, the bathythermograph, which accurately and quickly recorded water temperatures in the top 150 meters beneath the sea surface, was refined and mass produced by the navy and installed on all ships used in antisubmarine warfare. Maurice Ewing and Allyn Vine, two of the wartime recruits at Woods Hole, recognized that knowledge of subsurface ocean temperatures would be equally valuable to submarines in avoiding sonar ctetection. Read the entire page →
From page 322... ... In Washington the oceanographic unit of the Navy Hydrographic Office under Mary Sears (by that time a WAVE lieutenant) and the Sonar Design Division of the Bureau of Ships cooperates} with Redfield and Vine in producing training manuals and Submarine Supplements to the Sailing Directions. Read the entire page →
From page 323... ... In their origin and behavior they resemble somewhat the "coral heads" on the floor of coral atoll lagoons in the Central Pacific. The slowly accumulating peat in the salt marsh gave an opportunity to measure the heat flow from the interior of the earth. Read the entire page →
From page 324... ... Von Arx, has described him well: Alfred Clarence Redfield was an inherently civilized man: urbane, courtly, gracious, but at the same time forthright, redoubtable and demanding. He was neither modest nor immodest. Read the entire page →
From page 325... ... He was a member of the Falmouth Town Meeting, the forest and finance committees of the town, president of the Woods Hole Public Library, and a member of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce. Laboratory buildings are named for him at both the Oceanographic and the Bermuda Biological Station. Read the entire page →
From page 326... ... III. The acid-combining capacity and the dibasic amino acid content of the hemocyanin of Limulus polyphemus. Read the entire page →
From page 327... ... Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Read the entire page →
From page 328... ... Science 148~3674~:121920. 1967 Postglacial change in sea level in the Western North Atlantic Ocean. Read the entire page →
From page 329... ... ALFRED CLARENCE REDFIELD 329 1 980 The Tides of the Waters of New England and New York. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Read the entire page →

From page 315...

... canal manager, but he contributed many ideas and observations to the then-infant science of meteorology, and particularly to the unclerstanding of hurricanes, which he showed were giant whirlwinds. Alfred's grandfather was a botanist in the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and his father, Robert Redfield, was a naturalist photographer, whose works are in the Library Company in Philadelphia and at Yale.

Alfred C. Redfield Pages 314-329

Alfred C. Redfield
Pages 314-329