Merle Tuve
- Born: June 27, 1901 (Canton, South Dakota)
- Died: May 20, 1982
Education
- 1922: BS, University of Minnesota
- 1923: AM, University of Minnesota
- 1926: PhD, Johns Hopkins University (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1923–1924: Princeton University, Instructor in Physics
- 1926–1928: Carnegie Institution of Washington, Associate Physicist, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
- 1928–1938: Carnegie Institution of Washington, Physicist, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
- 1938–1946: Carnegie Institution of Washington, Chief Physicist, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
- 1946–1966: Carnegie Institution of Washington, Director, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
- 1966–1982: Carnegie Institution of Washington, Distinguished Service Member
Other Positions
- 1942–1946: Johns Hopkins University, Director, Applied Physics Laboratory
- 1949–1953: Journal of Geophysical Research, Editor
Selected Part-Time Positions
- 1940–1941: Member, Committee on Uranium, National Defense Research Committee
- 1941–1941: Member, Section on Uranium, Office of Scientific Research and Development
- 1954–1959: Member, United States National Committee, International Geophysical Year
- 1960–1970: Chair, Geophysics Research Board, National Research Council
Selected Awards and Honors
Archival Resources
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, DC
Online Finding Aid
Oral History Interviews
- 1967: Available Online
- 1982: Available Online
Published Resources
Philip H. Abelson, "Merle Antony Tuve: 1901-1982", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Allan A. Needell, "Lloyd Berkner, Merle Tuve, and the Federal Role in Radio Astronomy," Osiris 3 (1987): 261-288
Thomas D. Cornell, "Merle Antony Tuve: Pioneer Nuclear Physicist," Physics Today 41 (1988): 57-64
Homer E. LeGrand, "Conflicting Orientations: John Graham, Merle Tuve, and Paleomagnetic Research at DTM, 1938-1958," Earth Sciences History 8 (1989): 55-65
Allan A. Needell, "The Carnegie Institution of Washington and Radio Astronomy: Prelude to an American National Observatory," Journal for the History of Astronomy 22 (1991): 55-67
Angelo Baracca, "'Big Science' vs. 'Little Science': Laboratories and Leading Ideas in Conflict, Nuclear Physics in the Thirties and Forties," Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza 30 (1993): 373-390
G. Stewart Gillmor, "The Big Story: Tuve, Breit, and Ionospheric Sounding, 1923-1928," in The Earth, the Heavens, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, ed. Gregory A. Good (Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union: 1994)
H. E. LeGrand, "Chopping and Changing at the DTM 1946-1958: M.A. Tuve, Rock Magnetism, and Isotope Dating," in The Earth, the Heavens, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, ed. Gregory A. Good (Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union: 1994)
Thomas D. Cornell, "Merle A. Tuve's Post-War Geophysics: Early Explosion Seismology," in The Earth, the Heavens, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, ed. Gregory A. Good (Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union: 1994)
Jessica Wang, "Physics, Emotion, and the Scientific Self: Merle Tuve's Cold War," Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 42 (2012): 341-388
