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Bio-bibliographie
JAMES FREEMAN GILBERT, geboren am 9. August 1931 in Vincinnes, Indiana, Amerikanischer Staatsangehöriger;
1953 wurde ihm vom Massachusetts Institute of Technology der B.Sc. und 1956 der Ph.D. verliehen;
1956/57 Research Associate am Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
1957/59 Assistant Research Geophysicist und Professor am Institute of Geophysics, Universität von Kalifornien, Los Angeles;
1960/61 Senior Research Geophysicist, Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas;
seit 1961 Professor für Geophysik am Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Universität von Kalifornien, San Diego;
seit 1988 Direktor des Graduate Department der Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Universität von Kalifornien, San Diego;
Mitglied der U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1973), Gold Medaille der Royal Astronomical Society (1981), Medaille Arthur L. Day der Geological Society of America (1985) und andere Auszeichnungen.
Zu seinen wichtigsten Veröffentlichungen gehören:
— Knopoff, L. e F. Gilbert, First motions from seismic sources, Bull.Seism.Soc.Am.,50, 117- 134, 1960;
— Gilbert, J.F., e G.J.F. MacDonald, Free oscillations of the earth: I. Toroidal oscillations, J. Geophys. Res., 65, 675-693, 1960;
— Knopoff. L. e F. Gilbert, Diffraction of elastic waves by the core of the Earth, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 51, 35-50, 1961;
— Gilbert, F., e G. Backus, Propagator matrices in elastic wave and vibration problems, Geophysics, 31, 326-332, 1966;
— Backus, G. e F. Gilbert, Numerical applications of a formalism for geophysical inverse problems, Gophys. J.R. astr. Soc., 13, 247-276, 1967;
— Gilbert, F., Ranking end winnowing gross Earth data for inversion and resolution, Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 23, 125-128, 1971;
— Gilbert, F., e D. Helmberger, Generalized ray theory for a layered sphere, J. Roy. astr. Soc., 27, 57-80, 1972;
— Johnson, L.E., e F. Gilbert, Inversion and inference for teleseismic ray data, in Methods of Computational Physics, 12, ed. B. Bolt, McGraw Hill, 1972:
— Gilbert, F., Derivation of source parameters from low frequencv spectra. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, A, 274, 369-371, 1973;
— Dziewonski, A.M., e F. Gilbert, The effect on travel times of small, aspherical perturbations, Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 44, 7-17, 1976;
— Gilbert, F., e R. Buland, An enhanced deconvolution procedure for retrieving the seismic moment tensor from a sparse network, Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 47. 25 1-255, 1976;
— Masters, G., T.H. Jordan, P.G. Silver, e F. Gilbert, Aspherical earth structure from fundamental spheroidal-mode data. Nature, 298. 609-613, 1982;
— Park, J. e F. Gilbert, Coupled free oscillations of an aspherical dissipative, rotating Earth:
— Galerkin theory, J. Geophys.Res., 91. 7241-7260, 1986.