News Releases for 1960

• January 6: Near East Power
• January 8: Lecture on "The Curious Particles of Physics" scheduled in La Jolla
• January 8: Dr. Keith A. Brueckner Appointed Professor of Physics at UCLJ
• January 13: Year 1959 Was Second Warmest in Past 43
• January 13: Bacteria used to measure richness or poorness of sea water
• January 15: "The Curious Particles of Physics" will be delivered by Brueckner in La Jolla
• January 20: Past Decades Driest
• January 22: SIO and SSE Move to new quarters in Ritter Hall
• January 27: Mesozoic Atlas
• February 1: Appointments as Professors at La Jolla campus accepted by Mayers
• February 2: Dr. T.H. Van Andel participant in Visiting International Science Program
• February 4: Radiocarbon Dates
• February 10: Enrollment at the University's 7 campuses represents 58 counties
• February 10: Wood specimen found
• February 11: Chief speaker of Charter Anniversary will speak on "Is America Facing Up To World Leadership"
• February 12: Kohn is newly appointed Professor of Physics at SSE
• February 12: Fowler will speak on "The Origin of the Elements" in a lecture at La Jolla
• February 19: Scripps expeditions
• February 19: Dr. George G. Shor, Jr. Tags new expedition
• February 24: Scientists at UCIMR replenishing kelp beds
• March 2: Hemoglobin role studied
• March 10: Tsunami Forecasts
• March 18: Regents approved master plan for SSE
• March 21: Elephant Seal
• April 7: SSE to accept graduate students beginning September 1960
• April 7: Feher accepts appointment at UCSSE
• April 8: Talk at La Jolla on "The Social Life of Baboons"
• April 14: "Living drift bottles" used in study of ocean currents
• April 15: Washburn will discuss "The Social Life of Baboons" in a lecture at La Jolla
• April 21: Fish blood groups
• April 22: Chairman of the department of Earth Sciences for SSE has been selected
• April 25: Zimm accepted appointment at SSE
• April 28: Russian oceanography
• April 29: Lecture scheduled in La Jolla on "Cinema as Art"
• May 5: Volcanic Ash Layers Found in Pacific
• May 6: Motion picture shown as feature of lecture
• May 9: Revelle elected as member of American Philosophical Society
• May 19: Urey received Honorary Doctor of Science degree
• June 3: Argo's shakedown cruise
• June 3: Technical lecture "On viable governors" at La Jolla campus
• June 6: Underwater avalanches strip California's beaches
• June 6: University Service Day
• June 7: Argo will arrive in San Diego
• June 8: Japanese science writers to visit UC SIO
• June 13: New vessel added to UC SIO research fleet
• June 15: Annual University Service Day to be held
• June 16: Osborne and Wyman placed on suspension
• June 20: Tethys Expedition
• June 30: Bonner accepted appointment at SSE
• July 7: Physicist joins faculty of UCSSE
• July 25: Shepard to attend meeting in Denmark
• July 29: Kelp's growth in length is fastest rate known for plant on land or sea
• July 29: Commissioning ceremonies to be held at Embarcadero
• July 30: Personnel Manager of UCLJ to attend conference
• August 4: Ocean floor charts
• August 4: New building on UCLJ campus
• August 9: Second Department in SSE Established
• August 10: Chief of Naval Research to speak on "Research and the future Navy" at the commission of the Argo
• August 15: New research vessel Argo commissioned
• August 19: Monsoon Expedition
• August 19: Lecture Hall available for community events
• August 22: Departure of Argo postponed
• August 25: Construction has begun on temporary building of UCLJ campus
• August 25: Tethys Expedition
• August 31: Landscaping Surroundings of new Ritter Hall and Lecture Hall buildings
• September 8: Outer and inner space present same problems to engineers
• September 9: Dr. Maria Goeppert Mayer makes first faculty lecture for Fall 1960
• September 13: Series of expeditions on Horizon begins on September 15, 1960
• September 15: Physics Department has scheduled two graduate courses this semester to students employed in industry
• September 16: Dr. Maria Goeppert Mayer Lectures on "Magic Numbers In Nuclear Structure"
• September 21: Librarian appointed for the La Jolla campus
• October 6: Rare Specimen (Abalone)
• October 13: Dr. Marshall N. Rosenbluth Appointed Professor of Physics
• October 14: Lecture on "Brain and Behavior" scheduled at Sherwood Hall
• October 20: East Pacific Rise
• October 21: Scripps vessels in four quarters of the globe
• October 21: Drummond appointed Assistant to Chief Campus Officer
• October 28: Seismic sea waves
• November 2: Seaweed Study
• November 11: Lecture on "Discovery and Study of Elementary Particles" at La Jolla
• November 16: Yeasts found to be part of marine environment
• November 18: Regents selected name of "The University of California, San Diego"
• November 23: New method seen for study of Mars vegetation
• November 26: UC physicist honored by American Physical Society
• November 28: Lecture scheduled in La Jolla on "The American Economy in a Revolutionary Age"
• December 16: UC Studies Point Way To More Food For Asians
• December 19: Roger Revelle Chosen Dean of School of Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
• December 21: Scientists Honored For Papers on Fisheries
• December 21: UNESCO Names Scripps Man To New Office
• December 27: Three Big New Ocean Currents Located