Frank Press
Frank Press
Frank Pressis an American geophysicist. An advisor to four U.S. Presidents, he later served two consecutive terms as President of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of 160 scientific papers and co-author of the textbooks Earth and Understanding Earth...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth4 December 1924
CountryUnited States of America
Frank Press quotes about
atmosphere confident kinds people places tense
In many places where you have these kinds of people - very strong, very confident people - the atmosphere is frenetic and tense and unpleasant.
everybody lab marriage nice recognized
It was a marriage of convenience. Everybody recognized it as that, but we didn't think it was an extraordinary thing. The lab was a very nice place.
difficult-questions people relation
It's a difficult question of relations between people.
attitude different students
My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.
transition agendas smooth
I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.