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Prix Balzan 1990 pour la géophysique (terre solide)
Bio-bibliographie
JAMES FREEMAN GILBERT est né le 9 août 1931 à Vincinnes, Indiana;
il est citoyen américain;
B.Sc. (1953) et Ph.D. (1956) au Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Research Associate au Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1956-57);
Assistant Research Geophysicist et Professeur à l’Institut de Géophysique de l’Université de Californie, Los Angeles (1957-59);
Senior Research Geophysicist, Texas Instruments, Dallas (1960-61);
Professeur de Géophysique à I ‘Institut de Géophysique et de Physique Planétaire de l ‘Université de Californie, San Diego, depuis 1961;
Chairman Graduate Department à la Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Université de Californie, San Diego, depuis 1988;
membre de la US National Academy of Sciences (1973), James Freeman Gilbert a reçu de nombreuses récompenses honorifiques parmi lesquelles la Médaille d’Or de la Royal Astronomical Society (1981) et la Arthur L. Day Medal Geological Society of America (1985).
Parmi les nombreux articles publiés, citons entre autres:
— 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.