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Field-Of-Study: Applied Mathematics
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John A. Whitehead
Educated at Tufts (B.S., mechanical engineering, 1963) and Yale (M.S., 1963; Ph.D., 1968), Dr. Whitehead spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow (1968–69) and then Assistant Geophysicist (1969–71) at UCLA’s Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics before accepting a position as Assistant Scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he remained until his retirement in
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