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William M. Kaula
William M. Kaula
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He livecl to see the cletermination of absolute positions on Earth to a millimeter accuracy using the military Global Positioning System array of satellites. Bill was also one of the fathers of comparative planetology: Unclerstanc!
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In his own words, "Turning IS in the middle of a world war made West Point relatively attractive. Otherwise, I probably would have eventually become an English professor, like my brother." As a plebe, Bill continued in his indolent introspection, which garnered a lot of demerits and a modest academic standing.
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up for summer courses. In the fall no other students showocl up, en cl the Finn saicl he wouIcl not give lectures to only one student so Bill wrote his own syllabus for weekly discussions, thus getting a more comprehensive view of the subject.
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The project, however, kept being postponed because of security objections, which left him free to clo his own research. After mastering satellite orbit dynamics Bill turned his interests in two directions: implications of the gravity field for Earth's interior en c!
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He was twice a member of the National Research Council Space Science Board. His other principal association outside UCLA was with the American Geophysical Union, as section officer, journal editor, en c!
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The onset of leukemia was followed closely by three honors: the Whitten Mecial of the American Geophysical Union, the Brouwer Mecial of the American Astronomical Society, en cl in 1987 membership in the National Academy of Sciences.
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He also published on tidal evolution, chaotic dynamics, history and stability of planetismal distributions, the formation of terrestrial planets through accretion, the formation of the solar system, origin of the Moon, comparative planetology including compositional implications, thermal history of terrestrial bodies especially Venus and the quest for fast and accurate numerical integration schemes to follow solar system history and evolution. He must have devoured most of the literature in dynamical planetary science and in the physics of the solid solar system bodies, for one could ask him questions on almost any subject and he would understand the material in detail and know who had published what when.
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Ever optimistic, only a month ago, while in the hospital for the last time, he was still intending to come to this meeting. His service to the University also continued until the very end as he was a member of the extremely demanding UCLA Committee on Academic Personnel when he died fretting a few days before the end that he was not doing his share.
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64:2401-21. 1963 Tesseral harmonics of the gravitational field and geodetic datum shifts derived from camera observations of satellites.
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Some effects of a dry crustal flow law on numerical simulations of coupled crustal deformations and mantle convection on Venus.
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Near surface thermal/chemical boundary layer convection at infinite Prandtl number: Two-dimensional numerical experiments. Geophys.
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