Welcome to the Geophysical
Laboratory’s history website. This site was created as a history of
science summer internship project for the Carnegie Institution’s 2005
Summer Intern Program in Geoscience. Here you will find historical
sketches of the Laboratory’s founding and early years, portraits and
biographies of renowned staff members, and a timeline of major research
developments from establishment to present. Most of the illustrations
are from the Archives of the Geophysical Laboratory, which have been
preserved through the efforts of the Carnegie
Legacy Project.
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(Above) Arthur L. Day, first director of the Geophysical
Laboratory, and an unidentified colleague, with a carbon arc and
resistance furnace, ca. 1906.
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